Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Fear is a great instructor.

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.