Great Success Is A Great Temptation.

As Society Advances The Standard Of Poverty Rises.

For A Thousand Years No King In Christendom Has Shown Such Greatness Or Given So High A Type Of Manly Virtue.

Pride Is Both A Virtue And A Vice.

Want And Wealth Equally Harden The Human Heart, As Frost And Fire Are Both Alien To The Human Flesh. Famine And Gluttony Alike Drive Away Nature From The Heart Of Man.

It Seems Strange That A Butterfly's Wing Should Be Woven Up So Thin And Gauzy In The Monstrous Loom Of Nature, And Be So Delicately Tipped With Fire From Such A Gross Hand, And Rainbowed All Over In Such A Storm Of Thunderous Elements. The Marvel Is That Such Great Forces Do Such Nice Work.