There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

Civilization depends on morality.

Travel is a fools paradise.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.