Be true to your own highest convictions.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.