One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.