A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

History is the new poetry.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.