Sometimes There Are Accidents In Our Lives

The Name And Pretense Of Virtue Is As Serviceable To Self-interest As Are Real Vices.

We Should Often Feel Ashamed Of Our Best Actions If The World Could See All The Motives Which Produced Them.

No Matter How Much Care We Put Into Hiding Our Passions Under The Appearances Of Devotion And Honor, They Can Always Be Seen To Peer Out Through These Covers.

A Man For Whom Accident Discovers Sense, Is Not A Rational Being. A Man Only Is So Who Understands, Who Distinguishes, Who Tests It.

Hope Is The Last Thing That Dies In Man; And Though It Be Exceedingly Deceitful, Yet It Is Of This Good Use To Us, That While We Are Traveling Through Life It Conducts Us In An Easier And More Pleasant Way To Our Journey's End.