It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different.

If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age.