Do Anything Rather Than Give Yourself To

The Worst Tyrants Are Those Which Establish Themselves In Our Own Breasts.

War Is To Be Ranked Among The Most Dreadful Calamities Which Fall On A Guilty World; And, What Deserves Consideration, It Tends To Multiply And Perpetuate Itself Without End. It Feeds And Grows On The Blood Which It Sheds. The Passions, From Which It Springs, Gain Strength And Fury From Indulgence.

The Reveries Of Youth, In Which So Much Energy Is Wasted, Are The Yearnings Of A Spirit Made For What It Has Not Found But Must Forever Seek As An Ideal

To Do God's Will As Fast As It Is Made Known To Us, To Inquire Hourly -- I Had Almost Said Each Moment -- What He Requires Of Us, And To Leave Ourselves, Our Friends, And Every Interest At His Control, With A Cheerful Trust That The Path Which He Marks Out Leads To Our Perfection And To Himself, -- This Is At Once Our Duty And Happiness; And Why Will We Not Walk In The Plain, Simple Way?.

I Call That Mind Free Which Protects Itself Against The Usurpations Of Society, And Which Does Not Cower To Human Opinion: Which Refuses To Be The Slave Or Tool Of The Many Or Of The Few, And Guards Its Empire Over Itself As Nobler Than The Empire Of The World.