If it's a long war, I'll come out a general; if it's a short one, I mean to enter public life afterward and be a great orator.

Did you ever hear me speak, Harry ?" "No, thank Heaven," replied Harry fervently.

"Don't you think that South Carolina has enough orators now?
What on earth do all your people find to talk about ?" Langdon laughed with the utmost good nature.
"We fire the human heart," he replied.

"'Words, words, empty words,' it is not so.

Words in themselves are often deeds, because the deeds start from them or are caused by them.