The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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

Song is the heroics of speech.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.