The Practical Effect Of A Belief Is

A Single Seed Of Fact Will Produce In A Season Or Two A Harvest Of Calumnies; But Sensible Men Will Pay No Attention To Them.

Nature Is Less Partial Than She Appears, And All Situations In Life Have Their Compensations Along With Them.

Thy Plain And Open Nature Sees Mankind But In Appearance, Not What They Are.

Courage Is, On All Hands, Considered As An Essential Of High Character.

Now, To A Single-minded Man, Who Is Either Brave Enough Or Reckless Enough To Surrender Himself Wholly To One Idea, And Look Neither Right Nor Left, But Only Forward, What Earthly Consequences May Follow Is Not Material. Persecution Strengthens Him; And So He Is Sure He Is Right, Whether His Course End In A Prison Or On A Throne Is No Matter At All. But Men Of This Calibre Are Uncommon In Any Age Or In Any Country Very Uncommon In This Age And This Country.