He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally an...d politically, dreading the least innovation, and keeping, with a scrupulous timidity, in the beaten track of business as having the safest bottom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was as jealous of his power as an impotent lover of his mistress, without activity of mind enough to enjoy or exert it, but cou...ld not bear a share even in the appearances of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say--your professional poets, I mean--there never existed a more worth...less set than Byron and his friends for example.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the ro...pe having fixed upon his neck very firmly, and he was allowed to hang near three quarters of an hour; so that any attempt to recover him would have been in vain. I comforted myself in thinking that by giving up the scheme I had avoided much anxiety and uneasiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John was a very political animal. The thing that politics did and that fame as an entertainer didn't do was provide you with an en...gine for propagating your theories and beliefs. The one thing John would have liked more than anything else was his own political machine. Even though he would profess that politics is bullshit, he just wouldn't call it "politics." He'd call it "peace."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »