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

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!