It Requires A Strong Mind

We Are Pleased With One Who Instantly Assents To Our Opinions, But We Love A Proselyte.

When We Consider The Incidents Of Former Days, And Perceive, While Reviewing The Long Line Of Causes, How The Most Important Events Of Our Lives Originated In The Most Trifling Circumstances; How The Beginning Of Our Greatest Happiness Or Greatest Misery Is To Be Attributed To A Delay, To An Accident, To A Mistake; We Learn A Lesson Of Profound Humility.

We Should Lay Up In Our Minds A Store Of Goodly Thoughts Which Will Be A Living Treasure Of Knowledge Always With Us, And From Which, At Various Times, And Amidst All The Shiftings Of Circumstances, We Might Be Sure Of Drawing Some Comfort, Guidance And Sympathy.

Simple Ignorance Has In Its Time Been Complimented By The Names Of Most Of The Vices, And Of All The Virtues.

Many Know How To Please, But Know Not When They Have Ceased To Give Pleasure.