One Of The Great Lessons

Never Be So Brief As To Become Obscure.

Some Blame Themselves To Extort The Praise Of Contradiction From Others.

Most Of Our Censure Of Others Is Only Oblique Praise Of Self, Uttered To Show The Wisdom And Superiority Of The Speaker. It Has All The Invidiousness Of Self-praise, And All The Ill-desert Of Falsehood.

Ridicule May Be The Evidence Of With Or Bitterness And May Gratify A Little Mind, Or An Ungenerous Temper, But It Is No Test Of Reason Or Truth.

Quiet And Sincere Sympathy Is Often The Most Welcome And Efficient Consolation To The Afflicted. Said A Wise Man To One In Deep Sorrow, I Did Not Come To Comfort You; God Only Can Do That; But I Did Come To Say How Deeply And Tenderly I Feel For You In Your Affliction.