When We Play The Fool, How Widethe

We May Receive So Much Light As Not To See, And So Much Philosophy As To Be Worse Than Foolish.

Be Assured That, Although Men Of Eminent Genius Have Been Guilty Of All Other Vices, None Worthy Of More Than A Secondary Name Has Ever Been A Gamester. Either An Excess Of Avarice Or A Deficiency Of What, In Physics, Is Called Excitability, Is The Cause Of It; Neither Of Which Can Exist In The Same Bosom With Genius, With Patriotism, Or With Virtue.

The Spirit Of Greece, Passing Through And Ascending Above The World, Hath So Animated Universal Nature, That The Very Rocks And Woods, The Very Torrents And Wilds Burst Forth With It.

Fleas Know Not Whether They Are Upon The Body Of A Giant Or Upon One Of Ordinary Size.

Next In Criminality To Him Who Violates The Laws Of His Country, Is He Who Violates The Language.