Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or.
There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.
Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.
London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man’s power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.
As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
God is Unity, but always works in variety.
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.