A Gentleman Is Never In A Hurry.

A Great Biography Should, Like The Close Of A Great Drama, Leave Behind It A Feeling Of Serenity. We Collect Into A Small Bunch The Flowers, The Few Flowers, Which Brought Sweetness Into A Life, And Present It As An Offering To An Accomplished Destiny. It Is The Dying Refrain Of A Completed Song, The Final Verse Of A Finished Poem.

It Is Not Events And The Things One Sees And Enjoys That Produce Happiness, But A State Of Mind Which Can Endow Events With Its Own Quality, And We Must Hope For The Duration Of This State Rather Than The Recurrence Of Pleasurable Events.

Everything That Is In Agreement With Our Personal Desires Seems True; Everything That Is Not Puts Us In A Rage.

The Clear And Simple Words Of Common Usage Are Always Better Than Those Of Erudition. The Jargon Of The Philosophers Not Seldom Conceals An Absence Of Thought.

Marriage Makes A Man More Vulnerable By Doubling The Expanse Of Sail Exposed To The Tempests Of Social Life.