It is on occasions such as these that I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest.

-Murphy, Dervla
  Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.

It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Argosy,'Father Giles of Ballymoy', May.