“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”

“A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.”

“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”

“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

“Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.”

“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”