“Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.”

“In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.”

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes… as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”

“There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.”

“Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!”

“Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.”

“You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)”

“Actions may be laudable or blameable; but they cannot be reasonable: Laudable or blameable, therefore, are not the same with reasonable or unreasonable. The merit and demerit of actions frequently contradict, and sometimes controul our natural propensities. But reason has no such influence. Moral distinctions, therefore, are not the offspring of reason. Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals.”

“In matters where a company is not restrained by Parliament they have a right to make reasonable regulations; but it will always be a question whether their regulations are reasonable or not.”