As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.