The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.