I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

He who stops being better stops being good.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed