"[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.…"

"I deny that a people can govern itself. Self-government is a contradiction in terms. Whatever form a government assumes, power must be exercised by a minority of numbers."

"Read no history; nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."

"The greatest wisdom is to be ignorant that you are wise."

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