Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

A day is a miniature eternity.