What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.