I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.