In One Important Respect A Man Is

There Is, Indeed, No Wild Beast More To Be Dreaded Than A Communicative Man Having Nothing To Communicate.

It Is Difficult To Say Which Is The Greatest Evil--to Have Too Violent Passions, Or To Be Wholly Devoid Of Them. Controlled With Firmness, Guided By Discretion, And Hallowed By The Imagination, The Passions Are The Vivifiers And Quickeners Of Our Being. Without Passion There Can Be No Energy Of Character. Indeed, The Passions Are Like Fire, Useful In A Thousand Ways, And Dangerous Only In One--through Their Excess.

We Take Life Too Seriously: The Office Of Wit Is To Correct This Tendency.

There Is No Tyrant Like Custom, And No Freedom Where Its Edicts Are Not Resisted.

To Death We Owe Our Life; The Passing Of One Generation Opens A Way For Another.