Liberty is to be subserv’d whatever occurs; that is nothing that is quell’d by one or two failures, or any number of failures, or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness…
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.
I say that Democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of arts, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
I no doubt deserved my enemies but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; It is middling well as far as it goes – but is that all?
I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough.
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
I exist as I am, that is enough.
