Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.