The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism..

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and….

If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have….

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken..

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, di….

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading..

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothe….

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of own….

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit..

All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences that you show me, I ….

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and th….

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities..

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; th….

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not..

You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got ….

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true..

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time..

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how muc….

The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted wit….

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels..

The inmost in due time becomes the outmost..