An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.