Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. . . Speech is too often. . . the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. . . Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity. . . It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.