“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.”
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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
