The Pleasures Of The Mighty Are Obtained

We Have Nothing To Do, But To Choose What Is Right, To Be Steady In The Pursuit Of It, And Leave The Issue To Providence.

What A World Is This! What Is There In It Desirable? The Good We Hope For So Strangely Mixed, That One Knows Not What To Wish For!and One Half Of Mankind Tormenting The Other, And Being Tormented Themselves In Tormenting!

Shame Is A Fitter And Generally A More Effectual Punishment For A Child Than Beating.

Honeymoon Lasts Not Nowadays Above A Fortnight.

Youth Is Rather To Be Pitied Than Envied By People In Years Since It Is Doomed To Toil Through The Rugged Road Of Life Which The Others Have Passed Through, In Search Of Happiness That Is Not To Be Met With In It And That, At The Highest, Can Be Compounded For Only By The Blessing Of A Contented Mind.