Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.