All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

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.

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.