And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

First be a good animal.

The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.