...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.