I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.