The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.

A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.