The Next Best Thing To Knowing Something

Reason Will By Degrees Submit To Absurdity, As The Eye Is In Time Accommodated To Darkness.

Bravery Has No Place Where It Can Avail Nothing.

I Have Often Thought That There Has Rarely Passed A Life Of Which A Judicious And Faithful Narrative Would Not Be Useful; For Not Only Every Man Has, In The Mighty Mass Of The World, Great Numbers In The Same Condition With Himself, To Whom His Mistakes And Miscarriages, Escapes And Expedients, Would Be Of Immediate And Apparent Use; But There Is Such A Uniformity In The State Of Man, Considered Apart From Adventitious And Separable Decorations And Disguises, That There Is Scarce Any Possibility Of Good Or Ill But Is Common To Human Kind.

Man's Chief Merit Consists In Resisting The Impulses Of His Nature.

Deign On The Passing World To Turn Thine Eyes, And Pause Awhile From Letters, To Be Wise.