It is a luxury to be understood.

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

Activity is contagious.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.