The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.