Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.