Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

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

Thought is the seed of action.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.