Men Are Never Very Wise And Select

Whatever You May Suffer, Speak The Truth. Be Worthy Of The Entire Confidence Of Your Associates. Consider What Is Right As To What Must Be Done. It Is Not Necessary That You Should Keep Your Property, Or Even Your Life, But It Is Necessary That You Should Hold Fast Your Integrity.

A Man Might Pass For Insane Who Should See Things As They Are.

[peace] Is The Highest And Most Strenuous Act Of The Soul, But An Entirely Harmonious Act, In Which All Our Powers And Affections Are Blending In A Beautiful Proportion, And Sustain And Perfect One Another. It Is More Than The Silence After Storms. It Is As The Concord Of All Melodious Sounds ... An Alliance Of Love With All Beings, A Sympathy With All That Is Pure And Happy, A Surrender Of Every Separate Will And Interest, A Participation Of The Spirit And Life Of The Universe.... This Is Peace, And The True Happiness Of [humanity].

Every Human Being Is Intended To Have A Character Of His Own; To Be What No Others Are, And To Do What No Other Can Do.

The Chief Evil Of War Is More Evil. War Is The Concentration Of All Human Crimes. Here Is Its Distinguishing, Accursed Brand. Under Its Standard Gather Violence, Malignity, Rage, Fraud, Perfidy, Rapacity, And Lust. If It Only Slew Man, It Would Do Little. It Turns Man Into A Beast Of Prey.