I Know Not My Own Heart If

Distresses, However Heavy At The Time, Appear Light, And Even Joyous, To The Reflecting Mind, When Worthily Overcome.

Evil Courses Can Yield Pleasure No Longer Than While Thought And Reflection Can Be Kept Off.

The Mind Can Be But Full. It Will Be As Much Filled With A Small Disagreeable Occurrence, Having No Other, As With A Large One.

A Good Man Will Not Engage Even In A National Cause, Without Examining The Justice Of It.

I Am Forced, As I Have Often Said, To Try To Make Myself Laugh, That I May Not Cry: For One Or Other I Must Do.