The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.