Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.