Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.