People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

We are wiser than we know.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.