The key to every man is his thought.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.