"The will of the world is never the will of God." -- William Hamilton
William Hamilton (1704—1754) was a Scottish poet associated with the Jacobite movement.
He was born at the family seat in Ecclesmachan, West Lothian, Scotland. He began his literary career by contributing verses to Allan Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany. He joined Charles Edward Stuart in 1745, andcelebrated the Battle of Prestonpans in his poem, Gladsmuir. After the Battle of Culloden, he wandered in the Highlands, where he wrote his Soliloquy and later escaped to France. His friends, however, succeeded in obtaining his pardon, and he returned to Scotland. In 1750, on the death of his brother, he succeeded to the family estate, but died not long afterwards, in Lyon, France. He also wrote The Episode of the Thistle and the ballad, The Braes of Yarrow. He died in Lyon.
"Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.""Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.""I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.""The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.""Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines."