The eye of prudence may never shut.

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.