The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.