Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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