Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.

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

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

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

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

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.