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

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

We change whether we like it or not.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.