There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.