I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
“I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”
“I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.”