Accept your genius and say what you think.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.