Modesty Is Policy, No Less Than Virtue.

Philosophy Is Reason With The Eyes Of The Soul.

The Birth Of A Child Is The Imprisonment Of A Soul.

But For That Blindness Which Is Inseparable From Malice, What Terrible Powers Of Evil Would It Possess! Fortunately For The World, Its Venom, Like That Of The Rattlesnake, When Most Poisonous, Clouds The Eye Of The Reptile, And Defeats Its Aim.

The Apothegm Is The Most Portable Form Of Truth.... It Is Thus That The Proverb Answers Where The Sermon Fails, As A Well-charged Pistol Will Do More Execution Than A Whole Barrel Of Gunpowder Idly Expended In The Air.

It Is A Bird-flight Of The Soul, When The Heart Declares Itself In Song. The Affections That Clothe Themselves With Wings Are Passions That Have Been Subdued To Virtues.