C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Events
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Certain signs precede certain events.
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
In the great inconstancy and crowd of events nothing is certain except the past.
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.
Great events have sent before them their announcements.
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.