The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.