I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.