Prosperity Is A Great Teacher; Adversity A

What I Mean By Living To One's-self Is Living In The World, As In It, Not Of It: It Is As If No One Know There Was Such A Person, And You Wished No One To Know It: It Is To Be A Silent Spectator Of The Mighty Scene Of Things, Not An Object Of Attention Or Curiosity In It; To Take A Thoughtful, Anxious Interest In What Is Passing In The World, But Not To Feel The Slightest Inclination To Make Or Meddle With It.

Popularity Is Neither Fame Nor Greatness.

There Is An Unseemly Exposure Of The Mind, As Well As Of The Body.

A Situation In A Public Office Is Secure, But Laborious And Mechanical, And Without The Great Springs Of Life, Hope And Fear.

The Severest Critics Are Always Those Who Have Either Never Attempted, Or Who Have Failed In Original Composition.