What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.