In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms -- never! never! never!

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.