Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.