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.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.