“All that tread,The globe are but a handful to the tribes,That slumber in its bosom.”

“So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which movesTo that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry...”

“Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not ...”

“The melancholy days have come the saddest of the year Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.”

“Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable changeless state it were a cause indeed to weep.”

“To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms she speaks A various language.”

“In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts.Th...”

“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”

“Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?”