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The Only Freedom Worth Possessing Is That Which Gives Enlargement To A People's Energy, Intellect, And Virtues.

Others Are Affected By What I Am, And Say, And Do. So That A Single Act Of Mine May Spread And Spread In Widening Circles, Through A Nation Or Humanity. Through My Vice I Intensify The Taint Of Vice Throughout The Universe. Through My Misery I Make Multitudes Sad. On The Other Hand, Every Development Of My Virtue Makes Me An Ampler Blessing To My Race. Every New Truth That I Gain Makes Me A Brighter Light To Humanity.

Books Are True Levelers. They Give To All, Who Will Faithfully Use Them, The Society, The Spiritual Presence, Of The Best And Greatest Of Our Race.

Innocent Amusements Are Such As Excite Moderately, And Such As Produce A Cheerful Frame Of Mind, Not Boisterous Mirth; Such As Refresh, Instead Of Exhausting, The System; Such As Recur Frequently, Rather Than Continue Long; Such As Send Us Back To Our Daily Duties Invigorated In Body And Spirit; Such As We Can Partake Of In The Presence And Society Of Respectable Friends; Such As Consist With And Are Favorable To A Grateful Piety; Such As Are Chastened By Self-respect, And Are Accompanied With The Consciousness That Life Has A Higher End Than To Be Amused.

It Is Chiefly Through Books That We Enjoy Intercourse With Superior Minds. In The Best Books, Great Men Talk To Us, Give Us Their Most Precious Thoughts, And Pour Their Souls Into Ours.