A Great Mind Is One That Can

One Shining Quality Lends A Lustre To Another, Or Hides Some Glaring Defect.

But Of All Footmen The Lowest Class Is Literary Footmen.

We Must Overact Our Part In Some Measure, In Order To Produce Any Effect At All.

The Confined Air Of A Metropolis Is Hurtful To The Minds And Bodies Of Those Who Have Never Lived Out Of It. It Is Impure, Stagnant--without Breathing-space To Allow A Larger View Of Ourselves Or Others--and Gives Birth To A Puny, Sickly, Unwholesome, And Degenerate Race Of Beings.

The Surest Hindrance Of Success Is To Have Too High A Standard Of Refinement In Our Own Minds, Or Too High An Opinion Of The Judgment Of The Public. He Who Is Determined Not To Be Satisfied With Anything Short Of Perfection Will Never Do Anything To Please Himself Or Others.