Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?