The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.