A General Loftiness Of Sentiment, Independence Of

It Is Far More Important To Me To Preserve An Unblemished Conscience Than To Compass Any Object However Great.

[peace] Is The Highest And Most Strenuous Act Of The Soul, But An Entirely Harmonious Act, In Which All Our Powers And Affections Are Blending In A Beautiful Proportion, And Sustain And Perfect One Another. It Is More Than The Silence After Storms. It Is As The Concord Of All Melodious Sounds ... An Alliance Of Love With All Beings, A Sympathy With All That Is Pure And Happy, A Surrender Of Every Separate Will And Interest, A Participation Of The Spirit And Life Of The Universe.... This Is Peace, And The True Happiness Of [humanity].

Precept Is Instruction Written In The Sand; The Tide Flows Over It And The Record Is Gone; Example Is Graven On The Rock, And The Lesson Is Not Soon Lost.

All That We Do Outwardly Is But The Expression And Completion Of Our Inward Thought. To Work Effectively, We Must Think Clearly; To Act Nobly, We Must Think Nobly.

How Easy To Be Amiable In The Midst Of Happiness And Success.