Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.