When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.