Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.