Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

The less government we have the better.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.