Men, Like Musical Instruments, Seem Made To

There Are Seaons When Our Passions Have Slept So Long That We Know Not Whether They Still Exist In Us. So Does Flax Forget That It Is Combustible When The Fire Is Away From It.

Passion Doesn't Look Beyond The Moment Of Its Existence.

We Take Life Too Seriously: The Office Of Wit Is To Correct This Tendency.

It Is Some Compensation For Great Evils, That They Enforce Great Lessons.

The Highest Excellence Is Seldom Attained In More Than One Vocation. The Roads Leading To Distinction In Separate Pursuits Diverge, And The Nearer We Approach The One, The Farther We Recede From The Other.