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!

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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.