Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.