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

Earth laughs in flowers.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Today is a king in disguise.

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.