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

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.