The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.
Power dwells with cheerfulness.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.