Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.