Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

No labor is hopeless.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.