There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.