I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.
One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.