Ungratefulness Is The Very Poison Of Manhood.

To Be Ambitious Of True Honor And Of The Real Glory And Perfection Of Our Nature Is The Very Principle And Incentive Of Virtue; But To Be Ambitious Of Titles, Place, Ceremonial Respects, And Civil Pageantry, Is As Vain And Little As The Things Are Which We Court

Sweet Speaking Oft A Currish Heart Reclaims.

There Is No Man Suddenly Either Excellently Good Or Extremely Evil, But Grows Either As He Holds Himself Up In Virtue Or Lets Himself Slide To Viciousness.

What Is Mine, Even To My Life, Is Hers I Love; But The Secret Of My Friend Is Not Mine!

Hope Itself Is A Pain, While It Is Overmatched By Fear.