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

The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.