But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men. We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. The genesis and maturation of a p…

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent. To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that whic…

It has been said that great men are like eagles. They do not flock together. You find them one at a time, soaring alone, using their skill and their strengths …

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties …

The whole, though larger than any of its parts, does not necessarily obscure their separate identities.