It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.
Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.