When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

a good reader makes a good book

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.