My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

The force of character is cumulative.

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.