The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

All those men have their price.

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

I took the right sow by the ear.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

Every man has his price.

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.

No matter how disappointing you believe your life currently is, it is never too late to start reshaping it to become an amazing testimony.

There, Where love lives is Heaven on earth.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.

And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.