A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

Wherever there is power there is age.

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.