“Every time a successful man of business gives evidence to the world at large that business is not inconsistent with the highest cultivation of the nobler qualities, he is doing a public benefit.”

Arguing that practical success need not exclude cultivated character · Letter to his eldest sister, 1857

• Truth
• Work

“It is not enough, under given circumstances, to show that a benefit takes place. You require to show that it is the greatest possible under them.”

Demanding comparison with the best attainable good rather than mere improvement · Unpublished notes, Search for the Ideal

• Hope
• Truth

“In thinking of Truth it is to be borne in mind that we have nothing to do with things as they are, but with Things as they would appear to a perfect and perfectly healthy human Being.”

Locating human truth in the perceptions of an ideal human observer · Unpublished notes, Search for the Ideal

• Truth