 In oratory the will must predominate. |
| Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. |
| Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. |
| The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. |
| When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. |
| An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. |
| Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. |
| Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. |
| No one but a fool is always right. |
| Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. |
| Children always turn to the light. |
| Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. |
| The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. |
| To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. |
| Smiles are the language of love. |
| Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. |
| Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. |
