A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Our prayers are prophets.

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.