Blessed Indeed Is The Man Who Hears

In The First Place, An Unjust Law Exists In This Commonwealth, By Which Marriages Between Persons Of Different Color Is Pronounced Illegal. I Am Perfectly Aware Of The Gross Ridicule To Which I May Subject Myself By Alluding To This Particular; But I Have Lived Too Long, And Observed Too Much, To Be Disturbed By The World's Mockery.

To Everything There Is A Bright Side And A Dark Side; And I Hold It To Be Unwise, Unphilosophic, Unkind To Others, And Unhealthy For One's Own Soul, To Form The Habit Of Looking On The Dark Side. Cheerfulness Is To The Spiritual Atmosphere What Sunshine Is To The Earthly Landscape. I Am Resolved To Cherish Cheerfulness With Might And Main.

Happiness Consists Not In Having Much, But In Wanting No More Than You Have.

The Excess Of All Good Things Is Mischievous.

I Think Every Individual, And Every Society, Is Perfected Just In Proportion To The Combination, And Cooperation, Of Masculine And Feminine Elements Of Character. He Is The Most Perfect Man Who Is Affectionate As Well As Intellectual; And She Is The Most Perfect Woman Who Is Intellectual As Well As Affectionate. Every Art And Science Becomes More Interesting, Viewed Both From The Masculine And Feminine Points Of View.