Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings
Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.