In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.
To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?