rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.