Decision

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Active evil is better than passive good

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities

Look twice before you leap

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools

Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, loving not, hating not, just choosing so

I would think the extra pair of eyes, extra pair of ears would maybe deter someone who may have decided to try something

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave

There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid