The Great Business Of Man Is To

It Has Been Observed That The Height Of A Man From The Crown Of The Head To The Sole Of The Foot Is Equal To The Distance Between The Tips Of The Middle Fingers Of The Two Hands When Extended In A Straight Line.

It Is This Earth That, Like A Kind Mother, Receives Us At Our Birth, And Sustains Us When Born; It Is This Alone, Of All The Elements Around Us, That Is Never Found An Enemy Of Man.

Wine Takes Away Reason, Engenders Insanity, Leads To Thousands Of Crimes, And Imposes Such An Enormous Expense On Nations.

Grief Has Limits, Whereas Apprehension Has None. For We Grieve Only For What We Know Has Happened, But We Fear All That Possibly May Happen.

Many Other Means There Be, That Promise The Foreknowledge Of Things To Come: Besides The Raising Up And Conjuring Of Ghosts Departed, The Conference Also With Familiars And Spirits Infernal. And All These Were Found Out In Our Days, To Be No Better Than Vanities And False Illusions.