A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.