Great revolutions were not caused by great grievances or even great sufferings, but by great injustices.
Revolutions, like new countries, are often started by somewhat objectionable adventurers. When they have been successful, steady and honest people come in.
The good diplomatist is not the one who forces events, but the one who foresees them, and, when they come, knows how to make the best of them. The good diplomatist is not the one who successfully takes people in, but the one who, when he has discovered who are his true friends, sticks to them through thick and thin.
I prefer unrighteousness to self-righteousness. The unrighteous man may see the error of his ways and improve. He may even be lovable. The self-righteous man is unteachable, uncharitable, unloving, unlovable, and unlovely.
You can judge the social standing of a woman from the way she sits down.