Things We Wish To Be True Are

All Human Excellence Is But Comparative — There Are Persons Who Excel Us, As Much As We Fancy We Excel The Meanest.

What The Unpenetrating World Call Humanity, Is Often No More Than A Weak Mind Pitying Itself.

Superstitious Notions Propagated In Infancy Are Hardly Ever Totally Eradicate, Not Even In Minds Grown Strong Enough To Despise The Like Credulous Folly In Others.

For The Human Mind Is Seldom At Stay: If You Do Not Grow Better, You Will Most Undoubtedly Grow Worse.

It Is Better To Be Thought Perverse Than Insincere.