Rage Is For Little Wrongs; Despair Is

Small Habits Well Pursued Betimes May Reach The Dignity Of Crimes.

Oblivion Has Been Noticed As The Offspring Of Silence.

Life Though A Short, Is A Working Day. Activity May Lead To Evil; But Inactivity Cannot Be Led To Good.

Sensibility Appears To Me To Be Neither Good Nor Evil In Itself, But In Its Application. Under The Influence Of Christian Principle, It Makes Saints And Martyrs; Ill-directed, Or Uncontrolled, It Is A Snare, And The Source Of Every Temptation; Besides, As People Cannot Get It If It Is Not Given Them, To Descant On It Seems To Me As Idle As To Recommend People To Have Black Eyes Or Fair Complexions.

Parents Are Too Apt To Mistake Inclination For Genius.