Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.