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.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.