Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

No one suspects the days to be gods.

Science finds it methods.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Every natural action is graceful.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.