On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
Fiction or fable allures to instruction.
The only time not wasted is wasted time.
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.