England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.