A Lady Could Not Boast Of Her

Reason Has So Many Forms That We Do Not Know Which To Choose-experiment Has No Fewer.

And To Bring In A New Word By The Head And Shoulders, They Leave Out The Old One.

I Neither Complain Of The Past, Nor Do I Fear The Future.

Pride And Curiosity Are The Two Scourges Of Our Souls. The Latter Prompts Us To Poke Our Noses Into Everything, And The Former Forbids Us To Leave Anything Unresolved And Undecided.

Nature Has Made Us A Present Of A Broad Capacity For Entertaining Ourselves Apart, And Often Calls Us To Do So, To Teach Us That We Owe Ourselves In Part To Society, But In The Best Part To Ourselves.