My Business In Life Has Been To

We Are Not Responsible For Our Feelings, As We Are For Our Principles And Actions. ... Our Care, Then, Should Be To Look To Our Principles, And To Avoid All Anxiety About Our Emotions. Their Nature Can Never Be Wrong Where Our Course Of Action Is Right, And For Their Degree We Are Not Responsible.

There Is No Theory Of A God, Of An Author Of Nature, Of An Origin Of The Universe, Which Is Not Utterly Repugnant To My Faculties. . .

Public Opinion, - A Tyrant, Sitting In The Dark, Wrapt Up In Mystification And Vague Terrors Of Obscurity; Deriving Power No One Knows From Whom ... - But Irresistible In Its Power To Quell Thought, To Repress Action, To Silence Conviction.

While Feeling Far Less Injured By Toil Than My Friends Took For Granted I Must Be, I Yet Was Always Aware Of The Strong Probability That My Life Would End As The Lives Of Hard Literary Workers Usually End, - In Paralysis, With Months Or Years Of Imbecility.

The Habit Of Dwelling On The Past, Has A Narrowing As Well As A Debilitating Influence. Behind Us, There Is A Small, - An Almost Insignificant Measure Of Time; Before Us, There Is An Eternity. It Is The Natural Tendency Of The Mind To Magnify The One, And To Diminish The Other.