Echoes

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

It would be better for me that the whole world should disagree with me than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

Man is what he believes.

Virtue is serious business; everything else is farce.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

Go forth in virtue!

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.