True Glory Consists In Doing What Deserves

To Laugh, If But For An Instant Only, Has Never Been Granted To Man Before The Fortieth Day From His Birth, And Then It Is Looked Upon As A Miracle Of Precocity.

As Land Is Improved By Sowing It With Various Seeds, So Is The Mind By Exercising It With Different Studies.

A God Cannot Procure Death For Himself, Even If He Wished It, Which, So Numerous Are The Evils Of Life, Has Been Granted To Man As Our Chief Good.

There Is In Them A Softer Fire Than The Ruby, There Is The Brilliant Purple Of The Amethyst, And The Sea Green Of The Emerald - All Shining Together In Incredible Union. Some By Their Splendor Rival The Colors Of The Painters, Others The Flame Of Burning Sulphur Or Of Fire Quickened By Oil.

Man Alone At The Very Moment Of His Birth, Cast Naked Upon The Naked Earth, Does She Abandon To Cries And Lamentations.