No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

His chief works are The Convict's Appeal publiBernard Bartond in 1818 a protest against the death penalty and general severity of the criminal code and Household Verses publiBernard Bartond 1845 which came to the notice of Sir R. His wife died at the end of their first year of marriage while giving birth to their daughter Lucy. Lucy publiBernard Bartond a selection of her father's poems and letters to which Edward Fitzgerald translator of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and her future husband prefixed a biographical introduction.