You dislike my methods of work, but you must admit that by the only test that counts, the test of achievement, they have proved to be sound.

I have got somewhere; not all the way; but still somewhere.

Without advertisement, without patronage, without a cent I could call my own, I put my wares on the market.

I became Governor of Virginia in spite of everything you did, or did not do, to prevent it." There was a strange effectiveness in the simplicity of the man's speech.

It was natural; it was racy; it was like nothing that Stephen had ever heard before.