“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.