He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Read the whole essay, it ranks with the great prose of all time. Like most great prose, it is nearly as easy to take the wrong lesson from it as the right one, I say by way of disclaimer.

Still to come... a Friday Boortz! Stay tuned.