Hope Is The Best Part Of Our

Activity And Sadness Are Incompatible.

He Half Retrieves A Defeat Who Yields To It Gracefully.

As Threshing Separates The Wheat From The Chaff, So Does Affliction Purify Virtue.

The Selection Of A Subject Is To The Author What Choice Of Position Is To The General,--once Skilfully Determined, The Battle Is Already Half Won. Of A Few Writers It May Be Said That They Are Popular In Despite Of Their Subjects--but Of A Great Many More It May Be Observed That They Are Popular Because Of Them.

We Give Our Best Affections To The Beautiful, Only Our Second Best To The Useful.