I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to read more

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and
will find the flaw when read more

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and
will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty:--
Was read more

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty:--
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes read more

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent read more

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God.

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God.

Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still.

Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still.

Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

Simply duty hath no place for fear.

Simply duty hath no place for fear.