How Easy To Be Amiable In The

No Power In Society, No Hardship In Your Condition Can Depress You, Keep You Down, In Knowledge, Power, Virtue, Influence, But By Your Own Consent.

[peace] Is The Highest And Most Strenuous Act Of The Soul, But An Entirely Harmonious Act, In Which All Our Powers And Affections Are Blending In A Beautiful Proportion, And Sustain And Perfect One Another. It Is More Than The Silence After Storms. It Is As The Concord Of All Melodious Sounds ... An Alliance Of Love With All Beings, A Sympathy With All That Is Pure And Happy, A Surrender Of Every Separate Will And Interest, A Participation Of The Spirit And Life Of The Universe.... This Is Peace, And The True Happiness Of [humanity].

We Smile At The Ignorance Of The Savage Who Cuts Down The Tree In Order To Reach Its Fruit; But The Same Blunder Is Made By Every Person Who Is Over Eager And Impatient In The Pursuit Of Pleasure.

Home - The Nursery Of The Infinite.

Natural Amiableness Is Too Often Seen In Company With Sloth, With Uselessness, With The Vanity Of Fashionable Life.