Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

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.