Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us as a society in that clearness which it might have been had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.