How Small Of All That

Presumption Will Be Easily Corrected; But Timidity Is A Disease Of The Mind More Obstinate And Fatal.

It Is Scarcely Credible To What Degree Discernment May Be Dazzled By The Mist Of Pride, And Wisdom Infatuated By The Intoxication Of Flattery.

Every Other Author May Aspire To Praise; The Lexicographer Can Only Hope To Escape Reproach.

Good-humor Is A State Between Gayety And Unconcern,--the Act Or Emanation Of A Mind At Leisure To Regard The Gratification Of Another.

Of All The Grief's That Harass The Distressed; Sure The Most Bitter Is A Scornful Jest.