Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids..

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse..

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies….

The less government we have the better..

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, scien….

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West..

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange ….

The borrower runs in his own debt..

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions..

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions ….

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his br….

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul..

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood,….

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship..

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds..

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth..

We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing….

Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is….

If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water.….

Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with ….

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men..