Adopt this attitude and you will be confident that you can cope with everything.

I know many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason.

Never despair but if you do, work on in despair.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society. with all its combination of skill and force, can do in his favor.

Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Death is natural to a man, but slavery unnatural; and the moment you strip a man of his liberty you strip him of all his virtues: you convert his heart into a dark hole, in which all the vices conspire against you.

Nothing in progress can rest on its original plan. We might as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Slavery is a state so improper, so degrading, and so ruinous to the feelings and capacities of human nature, that it ought not to be suffered to exist.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings, but none when they are under the influence of imagination.