Life, In All Ranks And Situations, Is

In Every Remodelling Of The Present, The Existing Condition Of Things Must Be Supplanted By A New One. Now Every Variety Of Circumstances In Which Men Find Themselves, Every Object Which Surrounds Them, Communicates A Definite Form And Impress To Their Internal Nature. This Form Is Not Such That It Can Change And Adapt Itself To Any Other A Man May Choose To Receive; And The End Is Foiled, While The Power Is Destroyed, When We Attempt To Impose Upon That Which Is Already Stamped In The Soul A Form Which Disagrees With It.

It Is Usually More Important How A Man Meets His Fate Than What It Is.

The Price Of Apparent Happiness And Enjoyment Is The Neglect Of The Spontaneous Active Energies Of The Acting Members.

Even Sleep Is Characteristic. How Beautiful Are Children In Their Lovely Innocence! How Angel-like Their Blooming Features! And How Painful And Anxious Is The Sleep Of The Guilty!

Among Men Who Are Really Free, Every Form Of Industry Becomes More Rapidly Improved - All The Arts Flourish More Gracefully - All The Sciences Extend Their Range.