No Punishment Is So Terrible As Prosperous

Grandeur Of Character Lies Wholly In Force Of Soul, That Is, In The Force Of Thought, Moral Principle, And Love, And This May Be Found In The Humblest Condition Of Life

Great Minds Are To Make Others Great. Their Superiority Is To Be Used, Not To Break The Multitude To Intellectual Vassalage, Not To Establish Over Them A Spiritual Tyranny, But To Rouse Them From Lethargy, And To Aid Them To Judge For Themselves.

Undoubtedly A Man Is To Labor To Better His Condition, But First To Better Himself.

I Call That Mind Free Which Protects Itself Against The Usurpations Of Society, And Which Does Not Cower To Human Opinion: Which Refuses To Be The Slave Or Tool Of The Many Or Of The Few, And Guards Its Empire Over Itself As Nobler Than The Empire Of The World.

The Sin That Now Rises To Memory As Your Bosom Sin, Let This First Of All Be Withstood And Mastered. Oppose It Instantly By A Detestation Of It, By A Firm Will To Conquer It, By Reflection, By Reason, And By Prayer.