"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."

"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."

"[The Irish] hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character.…"