All The Butterflies And Cockyolybirds Would Fly

He Was Not Only, I Soon Discovered, A Water Drinker, But A Strict Vegetarian, To Which, Perhaps, He Owed A Great Deal Of The Almost Preternatural Clearness, Volubility, And Sensitiveness Of Mind.

If You Wish To Be Miserable, Think About Yourself, About What You Want, What You Like, What Respect People Ought To Pay You, What People Think Of You; And Then To You Nothing Will Be Pure. You Will Spoil Everything You Touch; You Will Make Sin And Misery For Yourself Out Of Everything God Sends You; You Will Be As Wretched As You Choose.

Toil Is The True Knight's Pastime.

It Has Been Said That True Religion Will Make A Man A More Thorough Gentleman Than All The Courts In Europe. And It Is True That You May See Simple Laboring Men As Thorough Gentlemen As Any Duke, Simply Because They Have Learned To Fear God; And, Fearing Him, To Restrain Themselves, Which Is The Very Root And Essence Of All Good Breeding.

Did Not Learned Men, Too, Hold, Till Within The Last Twenty-five Years, That A Flying Dragon Was An Impossible Monster? And Do We Not Now Know That There Are Hundreds Of Them Found Fossil Up And Down The World? People Call Them Pterodactyles: But That Is Only Because They Are Ashamed To Call Them Flying Dragons, After Denying So Long That Flying Dragons Could Exist.