Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.