Moral Excellence Has No Regard To Classes

I Have Suffered, Like Other Writers, From Indolence, Irresolution, Distaste To My Work, Absence Of 'inspiration,' And All That: But I Have Also Found That Sitting Down, However Reluctantly, With The Pen In My Hand, I Have Never Worked For One Quarter Of An Hour Without Finding Myself In Full Train.

. . . Is It To Be Understood That The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Bear No Relation To Half Of The Human Race?

It Is Characteristic Of Genius To Be Hopeful And Aspiring. It Is Characteristic Of Genius To Break Up The Artificial Arrangements Of Conventionalism, And To View Mankind In True Perspective, In Their Gradations Of Inherent Rather Than Of Adventitious Worth. Genius Is Therefore Essentially Democratic, And Has Always Been So.

It Is Characteristic Of Genius To Be Hopeful And Aspiring.

It Is My Deliberate Opinion That The One Essential Requisite Of Human Welfare In All Ways Is Scientific Knowledge Of Human Nature.