But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

Society has no bribe for me.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.