I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

Look out! Behind you!

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

Revolutions go not backward.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.