Friends Are Good,--good, If Well Chosen.

Justice Is Always Violence To The Party Offending, For Every Man Is Innocent In His Own Eyes.

Redemption From Sin Is Greater Then Redemption From Affliction.

So Possible Is It For Us To Roll Ourselves Up In Wickedness, Till We Grow Invulnerable By Conscience; And That Sentinel, Once Dozed, Sleeps Fast, Not To Be Awakened While The Tide Of Pleasure Continues To Flow Or Till Something Dark And Dreadful Brings Us To Ourselves Again.

In Trouble To Be Troubled, Is To Have Your Trouble Doubled.

It Is Men Of Desperate Fortunes On The One Hand, Or Of Aspiring, Superior Fortunes On The Other, Who Go Abroad Upon Adventures, To Rise By Enterprise, And Make Themselves Famous In Undertakings Of A Nature Out Of The Common Road.