The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.