Every Human Being Is A Volume, Worthy

A Man Might Pass For Insane Who Should See Things As They Are.

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.

Another Powerful Principle Of Our Nature, Which Is The Spring Of War, Is The Passion For Superiority, For Triumph, For Power. The Human Mind Is Aspiring, Impatient Of Inferiority, And Eager For Preeminence And Control.

The Domestic Relations Precede, And In Our Present Existence Are Worth More Than All Our Other Social Ties. They Give The First Throb To The Heart, And Unseal The Deep Fountains Of Its Love. Home Is The Chief School Of Human Virtue. Its Responsibilities, Joys, Sorrows, Smiles, Tears, Hopes, And Solicitudes Form The Chief Interest Of Human Life.

The Best Books For A Man Are Not Always Those Which The Wise Recommend, But Often Those Which Meet The Peculiar Wants, The Natural Thirst Of His Mind, And Therefore Awaken Interest And Rivet Thought.