If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Youth is everywhere in place.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

Under every deep a lower deep opens.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.