Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.