1. “All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”
2. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
3. “Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.”
4. “The duty of man is the same n respect to his own nature as n respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.”
5. “There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”
6. “It is not because men’s desires ae strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
7. “Bad men need mothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
8. “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.”
9. “Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.”
10. “A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
