Promises Are Dangerous Things To Ask Or

When Driven To The Necessity Of Explaining, I Found That I Did Not Myself Understand What I Meant.

How Is It That Hope So Powerfully Excites, And Fear So Absolutely Depresses All Our Faculties?

The Unaffected Language Of Real Feeling And Benevolence Is Easily Understood, And Is Never Ridiculous.

Idleness, Ennui, Noise, Mischief, Riot, And A Nameless Train Of Mistaken Notions Of Pleasure, Are Often Classed, In A Young Man's Mind, Under The General Head Of Liberty.

Those Who Have Lived In A House With Spoiled Children Must Have A Lively Recollection Of The Degree Of Torment They Can Inflict Upon All Who Are Within Sight Or Hearing.