Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

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.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.