I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.