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

"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination."

"Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory."

"All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must end."

"A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."