Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.