The Best Known Evil Is The Most

The Mind Sins, Not The Body; If There Is No Intention, There Is No Blame.

Great Contests Generally Excite Great Animosities.

A Woman's Mind Is Affected By The Meanest Gifts.

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.

Toil And Pleasure, In Their Natures Opposite, Are Yet Linked Together In A Kind Of Necessary Connection.