World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
P. S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.
Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.