Every Human Being Is A Volume, Worthy

Innocent Amusements Are Such As Excite Moderately, And Such As Produce A Cheerful Frame Of Mind, Not Boisterous Mirth; Such As Refresh, Instead Of Exhausting, The System; Such As Recur Frequently, Rather Than Continue Long; Such As Send Us Back To Our Daily Duties Invigorated In Body And Spirit; Such As We Can Partake Of In The Presence And Society Of Respectable Friends; Such As Consist With And Are Favorable To A Grateful Piety; Such As Are Chastened By Self-respect, And Are Accompanied With The Consciousness That Life Has A Higher End Than To Be Amused.

Men Are Never Very Wise And Select In The Exercise Of A New Power.

The Chief Evil Of War Is More Evil. War Is The Concentration Of All Human Crimes. Here Is Its Distinguishing, Accursed Brand. Under Its Standard Gather Violence, Malignity, Rage, Fraud, Perfidy, Rapacity, And Lust. If It Only Slew Man, It Would Do Little. It Turns Man Into A Beast Of Prey.

Influence Is To Be Measured, Not By The Extent Of Surface It Covers, But By Its Kind.

How Easy To Be Amiable In The Midst Of Happiness And Success.