It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.