"They have their own opinions, and nothing will disturb them.

Nobody could get them to believe for a moment that there was any danger of invasion.

And they carried on all their fishing business almost as calmly as they do now.

For that, of course, they may thank you, Lord Nelson; but they have not the smallest sense of the obligation." "I am used to that, as your father knows; but more among the noble than the simple.

For the best thing I ever did I got no praise, or at any rate very little.