Mental Pleasures Never Cloy; Unlike Those Of

Constant Success Shows Us But One Side Of The World; Adversity Brings Out The Reverse Of The Picture.

It Is In The Middle Classes Of Society That All The Finest Feeling, And The Most Amiable Propensities Of Our Nature Do Principally Nourish And Abound. For The Good Opinion Of Our Fellow-men Is The Strongest Though Not The Purest Motive To Virtue. The Privations Of Poverty Render Us Too Cold And Callous, And The Privileges Of Property Too Arrogant And Confidential, To Feel; The First Places Us Beneath The Influence Of Opinion--the Second, Above It.

If We Look Backwards To Antiquity It Should Be As Those That Are Winning A Race.

Next To Acquiring Good Friends, The Best Acquisition Is That Of Good Books.

Death Is The Only Sovereign Whom No Partiality Can Warp, And No Price Corrupt.