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

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.