When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

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.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.