Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

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.

He who has loved often ... has loved never.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.