The Mind That Lies Fallow But A

Conspiracies No Sooner Should Be Formed Than Executed.

I Have Always Preferred Cheerfulness To Mirth. The Latter I Consider As An Act, The Former As A Habit Of Mind. Mirth Is Short And Transient, Cheerfulness Fixed And Permanent.

Among Those Evils Which Befall Us, There Are Many Which Have Been More Painful To Us In The Prospect Than By Their Actual Pressure.

We Are Growing Serious, And, Let Me Tell You, That's The Very Next Step To Being Dull.

Waning Moons Their Settled Periods Keep, To Swell The Billows And Ferment The Deep.