False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.