The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.