Adversity is the first path to truth.

And hold up to the sun my little taper.

It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.