But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.