The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

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