Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.
After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.
Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character.
Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral?
Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.
Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; 4 the latter, of Inference.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.