We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

America is another name for opportunity.

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!