To Learn Is Not To

I Have Been Taken By Satan Into The Highest Mountain In The Earth, And When There He Said He To Me, ‘child Of Earth, What Wouldst Thou Have To Make Thee Adore Me?’ I Replied, ‘listen, I Wish To Be Providence Myself, For I Feel That The Most Beautiful, Noblest, Most Sublime Thing In The World, Is To Recompense And Punish.

It Was Like The Eve Of A Battle; The Hearts Beat, The Eyes Laughed, And They Felft That The Life They Were Perhaps Going To Lose, Was After All, A Good Thing.

For The Happy Man Prayer Is Only A Jumble Of Words, Until The Day When Sorrow Comes To Explain To Him The Sublime Language By Means Of Which He Speaks To God.

To Be A Woman Condemned To A Wretched And Disgraceful Punishment Is No Impediment To Beauty, But It Is An Insurmountable Obstacle To Power. Like All Persons Of Real Genius, Her Ladyship Well Knew What Accorded With Her Nature And Her Means. Poverty Disgusted Her -subjection Deprived Her Of Two-thirds Of Her Greatness. Her Ladyship Was Only A Queen Amongst Queens: The Enjoyment Of Satisfied Pride Was Essential To Her Sway. To Command Beings Of An Inferior Nature, Was, To Her, Rather A Humiliation Than A Pleasure.

The Difference Between Treason And Patriotism Is Only A Matter Of Dates.