Our expenses are all for conformity.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.