Love is the essence of God.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.