I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.