Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.