Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

The gentleman is a man of truth.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.