A Soul Occupied With Great Ideas Performs

Of Tobacco And Its Consequences, I Will Say Nothing But That The Practice Is At Too Bad A Pass To Leave Hope That Anything That Could Be Said In Books Would Work A Cure. If The Floors Of Boarding-houses, And The Decks Of Steam-boats, And The Carpets Of The Capitol, Do Not Sicken The Americans Into A Reform; If The Warnings Of Physicians Are Of No Avail, What Remains To Be Said? I Dismiss The Nauseous Subject.

The Sick-room Becomes The Scene Of Intense Convictions; And Among These, None, It Seems To Me, Is More Distinct And Powerful Than That Of The Permanent Nature Of Good, And The Transient Nature Of Evil.

His Subject Is The "origin Of Species," & Not The Origin Of Organization; & It Seems A Needless Mischief To Have Opened The Latter Speculation At All.

Keep Innocency, And Take Heed Unto The Thing That Is Right, For That Shall Bring A Man Peace At The Last.

We Are Not Responsible For Our Feelings, As We Are For Our Principles And Actions. ... Our Care, Then, Should Be To Look To Our Principles, And To Avoid All Anxiety About Our Emotions. Their Nature Can Never Be Wrong Where Our Course Of Action Is Right, And For Their Degree We Are Not Responsible.