Occupation: Former Foreign Secretary Birth: April 11, 1770 Death: August 8, 1827
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth..
There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact..
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No….
So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES..
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure..
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own..
Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I kn….
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gotti….
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!.
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?.
Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along..
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on ….
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So hav….
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old..
Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, wit….
Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm..
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan..