Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

I am not an American. I am the American.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.