Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.