Wisdom Is Seldom Gained Without

The Most Enthusiastic Man In A Cause Is Rarely Chosen As The Leader.

Love, Like The Opening Of The Heavens To The Saints, Shows For A Moment, Even To The Dullest Man, The Possibilities Of The Human Race. He Has Faith, Hope, And Charity For Another Being, Perhaps But A Creation Of His Imagination: Still It Is A Great Advance For A Man To Be Profoundly Loving Even In His Imaginations.

Reading Is Sometimes An Ingenious Device For Avoiding Thought.

No Doubt Hard Work Is A Great Police Agent. If Everybody Were Worked From Morning Till Night, And Then Carefully Locked Up, The Register Of Crime Might Be Greatly Diminished. But What Would Become Of Human Nature? Where Would Be The Room For Growth In Such A System Of Things? It Is Through Sorrow And Mirth, Plenty And Need, A Variety Of Passions, Circumstances, And Temptations, Even Through Sin And Misery, That Men's Natures Are Developed.

Those Who Never Philosophized Until They Met With Disappointments, Have Mostly Become Disappointed Philosophers