The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.
Vision is seeing the invisible.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.