Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.