The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.