Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.