Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.