I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play. I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing. Health is worth more than learning. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them. I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. |