When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

Be scrupulously truthful, even when truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.