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.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.