Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.