We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.