No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.