Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
...[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty...
A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.
There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation...
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.
The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.