One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. There is no question what the roll of honor in America is.