All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.