Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.