Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

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

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

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.