The Diseases Of The Present Have Little

If Everybody Floated With The Tide Of Talk, Placidity Would Soon End In Stagnation. It Is The Strong Backward Stroke Which Stirs The Ripples, And Gives Animation And Variety.

It Is Not Depravity That Afflicts The Human Race So Much As A General Lack Of Intelligence.

Humor Distorts Nothing, And Only False Gods Are Laughed Off Their Earthly Pedestals.

Need Drives Men To Envy As Fullness Drives Them To Selfishness.

The Least Practical Of Us Have Some Petty Thrift Dear To Our Hearts, Some One Direction In Which We Love To Scrimp.