Do Anything Rather Than Give Yourself To

We Honor Revelation Too Highly To Make It The Antagonist Of Reason, Or To Believe That It Calls Us To Renounce Our Highest Powers.

No One Should Part With Their Individuality And Become That Of Another.

No Man Receives The Full Culture Of A Man In Whom The Sensibility To The Beautiful Is Not Cherished; And There Is No Condition Of Life From Which It Should Be Excluded. Of All Luxuries This Is The Cheapest, And The Most At Hand, And Most Important To Those Conditions Where Coarse Labor Tends To Give Grossness To The Mind.

Others Are Affected By What I Am, And Say, And Do. So That A Single Act Of Mine May Spread And Spread In Widening Circles, Through A Nation Or Humanity. Through My Vice I Intensify The Taint Of Vice Throughout The Universe. Through My Misery I Make Multitudes Sad. On The Other Hand, Every Development Of My Virtue Makes Me An Ampler Blessing To My Race. Every New Truth That I Gain Makes Me A Brighter Light To Humanity.

To Extinguish The Free Will Is To Strike The Conscience With Death, For Both Have But One And The Same Life.