Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

Many make the household but only one the home.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.