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For Character, To Prepare For The Inevitable I Recommend Selections From [ralph Waldo] Emerson. His Writings Have Done For Me Far More Than All Other Reading.

The Independence Of All Political And Other Bother Is A Happiness.

Personally I Do Not Resort To Force - Not Even The Force Of Law - To Advance Moral Reforms. I Prefer Education, Argument, Persuasion, And Above All The Influence Of Example - Of Fashion.

Perhaps The Happiest Moment Of My Life Was Then, When I Saw That Our Line Didn't Break And That The Enemy's Did.

He [william Merritt Chase] Is, I Suspect, Getting A Very Truthful Likeness. I Would Like It Better If [it] Was Not So Gray, So Cramped About The Eyes, And Not Quite So Corpulent. But Is This Not Quarreling With Nature?