Pride, If Not The Origin, Is The

It Is Quite Impossible To Understand The Character Of A Person From One Action, However Striking That Action May Be.

To Hear Always, To Think Always, To Learn Always, It Is Thus That We Live Truly. He Who Aspires To Nothing, Who Learns Nothing, Is Not Worthy Of Living.

If You Are Often Deceived By Those Around You, You May Be Sure That You Deserve To Be Deceived; And That Instead Of Railing At The General Falseness Of Mankind, You Have First To Pronounce Judgment On Your Own Jealous Tyranny, Or On Your Own Weak Credulity.

A Great Many Wise Sayings Have Been Uttered About The Effects Of Solitary Retirement; But The Motives Which Impel Men To Seek It Are Not More Various Than The Effects Which It Produces On Different Individuals. One Thing Is Certain, That Those Who Can With Truth Affirm That They Are "never Less Alone Than When Alone," Might Generally Add That They Never Feel More Lonely Than When Not Alone.

A Sceptical Young Man One Day Conversing With The Celebrated Dr. Parr, Observed That He Would Believe Nothing Which He Could Not Understand. "then, Young Man, Your Creed Will Be The Shortest Of Any Man's I Know."