The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?