Happiness

The sun and stars that float in the open air

The apple shaped earth and we upon it

Surely the drift of them is something grand

I do not know what it is, except that is grand

And that it is happiness.

Hell

Men might go to heaven with half the labor they put to go to hell, if they would but venture their industry in the right way.

Man

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Malice

With Malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as god gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Excellence

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

Evil

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Facts

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Living

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

Loneliness

All this hideous doubt, despair and dark confusion of the soul a lonely man must know, for he is united to no image save that which he creates himself.

Liberty

It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of other’s or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.