I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

Nature is upheld by antagonism.