"Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell ma…"

"With words we govern men."

"The people are not strong: the people never can be strong. Their attempts at self-vindication will end only in their suffering and confusion."

"Madam, I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New."

"Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be."