Virtue Is An Angel, But She Is

If An Idiot Were To Tell You The Same Story Every Day For A Year, You Would End By Believing It.

Ignorance Has Been Well Represented Under The Similitude Of A Dungeon, Where, Though It Is Full Of Life, Yet Darkness And Silence Reign. But In Society The Bars And Locks Have Been Broken; The Dungeon Itself Is Demolished; The Prisoners Are Out; They Are In The Midst Of Us. We Have No Security But To Teach And Renovate Them.

Manners Are The Root, Laws Only The Trunk And Branches. Manners Are The Archetypes Of Laws. Manners Are Laws In Their Infancy; Laws Are Manners Fully Grown,--or, Manners Are Children, Which, When They Grow Up, Become Laws.

Doing Nothing For Others Is The Undoing Of One's Self. We Must Be Purposely Kind And Generous, Or We Miss The Best Part Of Existence. The Heart That Goes Out Of Itself, Gets Large And Full Of Joy. This Is The Great Secret Of The Inner Life. We Do Ourselves The Most Good Doing Something For Others.

They Who Set An Example Make A Highway. Others Follow The Example, Because It Is Easier To Travel On A Highway Than Over Untrodden Grounds.