The Public Weal Requires That

It Is A Human Tendency "to Measure Truth And Error By Our Capacity."

Painting Myself For Others, I Have Painted My Inward Self With Colors Clearer Than My Original Ones. I Have No More Made My Book Than My Book Has Made Me--a Book Consubstantial With Its Author, Concerned With My Own Self, An Integral Part Of My Life; Not Concerned With Some Third-hand, Extraneous Purpose, Like All Other Books.

I Had Rather Complain Of Ill-fortune Than Be Ashamed Of Victory.

The Worth Of The Mind Consisteth Not In Going High, But In Marching Orderly.

Those Sciences Which Govern The Morals Of Mankind, Such As Theology And Philosophy, Make Everything Their Concern: No Activity Is So Private Or So Secret As To Escape Their Attention Or Their Jurisdiction.