What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.