Be What You Would Seem To Be.

Truth Is The Nursing Mother Of Genius. No Man Can Be Absolutely True To Himself, Eschewing Cant, Compromise, Servile Imitation, And Complaisance Without Becoming Original.

Our Friends Should Be Our Incentives To Right, But Not Only Our Guiding, But Our Prophetic, Stars. To Love By Right Is Much, To Love By Faith Is More; Both Are The Entire Love, Without Which Heart, Mind, And Soul Cannot Be Alike Satisfied. We Love And Ought To Love One Another, Not Merely For The Absolute Worth Of Each, But On Account Of A Mutual Fitness Of Temporary Character.

Preparations Are Good In Life, Prologues Ruinous.

I Stand In The Sunny Noon Of Life. Objects No Longer Glitter In The Dews Of Morning, Neither Are Yet Softened By The Shadows Of Evening.

Most Marvelous And Enviable Is That Fecundity Of Fancy Which Can Adorn Whatever It Touches, Which Can Invest Naked Fact And Dry Reasoning With Unlooked-for Beauty, Make Flowers Bloom Even On The Brow Of The Precipice, And, When Nothing Better Can Be Had, Can Turn The Very Substance Of Rock Itself Into Moss And Lichens. This Faculty Is Uncomparingly The Most Important For The Vivid And Attractive Exhibition Of Truth To The Minds Of Men.