The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Rest is for the dead.

A collection of books is the best of all universities.