I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Study to be STEADY.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can, and when once you take hope and fear away you take from it its very life and being.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

There is only one duty only one safe course and that is to try to be right.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

True praise comes often even to the lowly, false praise only to the strong.

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