The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.