The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.
"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."
Let him be great, and love shall follow him.
Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.