The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.