Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.