The Sick-room Becomes The Scene Of Intense

The Last Degree Of Honesty Has Always Been, And Is Still Considered Incompatible With Statesmanship. To Hunger And Thirst After Righteousness Has Been Naturally, As It Were, Supposed A Disqualification For Affairs.

Of Tobacco And Its Consequences, I Will Say Nothing But That The Practice Is At Too Bad A Pass To Leave Hope That Anything That Could Be Said In Books Would Work A Cure. If The Floors Of Boarding-houses, And The Decks Of Steam-boats, And The Carpets Of The Capitol, Do Not Sicken The Americans Into A Reform; If The Warnings Of Physicians Are Of No Avail, What Remains To Be Said? I Dismiss The Nauseous Subject.

Laws And Customs May Be Creative Of Vice; And Should Be Therefore Perpetually Under Process Of Observation And Correction: But Laws And Customs Cannot Be Creative Of Virtue: They May Encourage And Help To Preserve It; But They Cannot Originate It.

It Is Not Quite True That There Are No Good Letters Written In America: Among My Own Circle Of Correspondents There, There Are Ladies And Gentlemen Whose Letters Would Stand A Comparison With Any For Frankness, Grace, And Epistolary Beauty Of Every Kind. But I Am Not Aware Of Any Medium Between This Excellence And The Boarding-school Insignificance Which Characterizes The Rest.

I Certainly Had No Idea How Little Faith Christians Have In Their Own Faith Till I Saw How Ill Their Courage And Temper Can Stand Any Attack On It.