Fancy Brings Us As Many Vain Hopes

It Is Almost More Important How A Person Takes His Fate Than What It Is. And The Best Way Is With Gratitude While Trying To Improve It For The Good Of Others And Themselves.

Life, In All Ranks And Situations, Is An Outward Occupation, An Actual And Active Work.

If We Reason That We Want Happiness For Others, Not For Ourselves, Then We Ought Justly To Be Suspected Of Failing To Recognize Human Nature For What It Is And Of Wishing To Turn Men Into Machines.

One Must Not Consider A Language As A Product Dead, And Formed But Once; It Is An Animate Being, And Ever Creative. Human Thought Elaborates Itself With The Progress Of Intelligence; And Of This Thought Language Is A Manifestation. An Idiom Cannot Therefore Remain Stationary; It Walks, It Develops, It Grows Up, It Fortifies Itself, It Becomes Old, And It Reaches Decrepitude.

All Situations In Which The Interrelationships Between Extremes Are Involved Are The Most Interesting And Instructive.