“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

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

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.