The Amiable Is A Duty Most Certainly,

He Who Would Acquire Fame Must Not Show Himself Afraid Of Censure. The Dread Of Censure Is The Death Of Genius.

The Apothegm Is The Most Portable Form Of Truth.... It Is Thus That The Proverb Answers Where The Sermon Fails, As A Well-charged Pistol Will Do More Execution Than A Whole Barrel Of Gunpowder Idly Expended In The Air.

It Is A Bird-flight Of The Soul, When The Heart Declares Itself In Song. The Affections That Clothe Themselves With Wings Are Passions That Have Been Subdued To Virtues.

There Is A Native Baseness In The Ambition Which Seeks Beyond Its Desert, That Never Shows More Conspicuously Than When, No Matter How, It Temporarily Gains Its Object.

Philosophy Has Its Bugbears, As Well As Superstition.