I Know Not My Own Heart If

The World, Thinking Itself Affronted By Superior Merit, Takes Delight To Bring It Down To Its Own Level.

There Hardly Can Be A Greater Difference Between Any Two Men, Than There Too Often Is, Between The Same Man, A Lover And A Husband.

The Longer A Woman Remains Single, The More Apprehensive She Will Be Of Entering Into The State Of Wedlock. At Seventeen Or Eighteen, A Girl Will Plunge Into It, Sometimes Without Either Fear Or Wit; At Twenty, She Will Begin To Think; At Twenty-four, Will Weigh And Discriminate; At Twenty-eight, Will Be Afraid Of Venturing; At Thirty, Will Turn About, And Look Down The Hill She Has Ascended, And Sometimes Rejoice, Sometimes Repent, That She Has Gained That Summit Sola.

Spiritual Pride Is The Most Dangerous And The Most Arrogant Of All Sorts Of Pride.

When We Reflect Upon The Cruelties Daily Practised Upon Such Of The Animal Creation As Are Given Us For Food, Or Which We Ensnarefor Our Diversion, We Shall Be Obliged To Own That There Is More Of The Savage In Human Nature Than We Are Aware Of.