A Man's Action Is Only

Men Rattle Their Chains-to Manifest Their Freedom.

Almost All Human Affairs Are Tedious. Everything Is Too Long. Visits, Dinners, Concerts, Plays, Speeches, Pleadings, Essays, Sermons, Are Too Long. Pleasure And Business Labor Equally Under This Defect, Or, As I Should Rather Say, This Fatal Super-abundance.

Do Not Be Deceived Into Thinking That How A Man Acts Is The Full Picture.

The Man Who Could Withstand, With His Fellow-men In Single Line, A Charge Of Cavalry May Lose All Command Of Himself On The Occurrence Of A Fire In His Own House, Because Of Some Homely Reminiscence Unknown To The Observing Bystander.

The Most Common-place People Become Highly Imaginative When They Are In A Passion. Whole Dramas Of Insult, Injury, And Wrong Pass Before Their Minds,--efforts Of Creative Genius, For There Is Sometimes Not A Fact To Go Upon.