We Easily Enough Confess In Others An

Virtue Can Have Naught To Do With Ease. . . . It Craves A Steep And Thorny Path.

How Many Valiant Men We Have Seen To Survive Their Own Reputation!

On The Highest Throne In The World, We Still Sit Only On Our Own Bottom.

I Set Forth Notions That Are Human And My Own, Simply As Human Notions Considered In Themselves, Not As Determined And Decreed By Heavenly Ordinance.

For Among Other Things He Had Been Counseled To Bring Me To Love Knowledge And Duty By My Own Choice, Without Forcing My Will, And To Educate My Soul Entirely Through Gentleness And Freedom.