To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.