You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

A book is the only immortality.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.