The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

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

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

Small things affects small minds.