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.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.