He Who Labours Not, Cannot Enjoy The

Imitation Is For The Most Part So Unconscious That Its Effects Are Almost Unheeded, But Its Influence Is Not The Less Permanent On That Account. It Is Only When An Impressive Nature Is Placed In Contact With An Impressionable One That The Alteration In The Character Becomes Recognizable. Yet Even The Weakest Natures Exercise Some Influence Upon Those About Them. The Approximation Of Feeling, Thought, And Habit Is Constant, And The Action Of Example Unceasing.

If We Opened Our Minds To Enjoyment, We Might Find Tranquil Pleasures Spread About Us On Every Side. We Might Live With The Angels That Visit Us On Every Sunbeam, And Sit With The Fairies Who Wait On Every Flower.

No Laws, However Stringent, Can Make The Idle Industrious, The Thriftless Provident, Or The Drunken Sober. Such Reforms Can Only Be Effected By Means Of Individual Action, Economy And Self-denial; By Better Habits, Rather Than By Greater Rights.

Manners Are The Ornament Of Action.

The Possession Of A Library, Or The Free Use Of It, No More Constitutes Learning, Than The Possession Of Wealth Constitutes Generosity.