Who said “Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”?

“Man's extremity is God's opportunity.”

“A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”

“Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.”

“The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.”

“Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.”

“I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.”

“I was never less alone than when by myself.”

“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”

“A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.”

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“Style is the image of character.”