There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.