Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.