If You Would Understand Your Own Age,

Wise Sayings Often Fall On Barren Ground, But A Kind Word Is Never Thrown Away.

An Official Man Is Always An Official Man, And Has A Wild Belief In The Value Of Reports.

It Is A Weak Thing To Tell Half Your Story, And Then Ask Your Friend's Advice-a Still Weaker Thing To Take It.

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.

A Man's Action Is Only A Picture Book Of His Creed.