Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.