Simple Ignorance Has In Its Time Been

Those Who Are Successfully To Lead Their Fellow-men, Should Have Once Possessed The Nobler Feelings. We Have All Known Individuals Whose Magnanimity Was Not Likely To Be Troublesome On Any Occasion; But Then They Betrayed Their Own Interests By Unwisely Omitting The Consideration, That Such Feelings Might Exist In The Breasts Of Those Whom They Had To Guide And Govern: For They Themselves Cannot Even Remember The Time When In Their Eyes Justice Appeared Preferable To Expediency, The Happiness Of Others To Self-interest, Or The Welfare Of A State To The Advancement Of A Party.

Most Terrors Are But Spectral Illusions. Only Have The Courage Of The Man Who Could Walk Up To His Spectre Seated In The Chair Before Him, And Sit Down Upon It; The Horrid Thing Will Not Partake The Chair With You.

Extremely Foolish Advice Is Likely To Be Uttered By Those Who Are Looking At The Laboring Vessel From The Land.

The Worst Use That Can Be Made Of Success Is To Boast Of It.

We Should Lay Up In Our Minds A Store Of Goodly Thoughts Which Will Be A Living Treasure Of Knowledge Always With Us, And From Which, At Various Times, And Amidst All The Shiftings Of Circumstances, We Might Be Sure Of Drawing Some Comfort, Guidance And Sympathy.