The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.

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

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.

Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.