I Want To Be A Free Rover

The Habit Of Dwelling On The Past, Has A Narrowing As Well As A Debilitating Influence. Behind Us, There Is A Small, - An Almost Insignificant Measure Of Time; Before Us, There Is An Eternity. It Is The Natural Tendency Of The Mind To Magnify The One, And To Diminish The Other.

If I Believed That The Choice Lay Between A Sacrifice Of The Completest Order Of Biography And That Of The Inviolability Of Private Epistolary Correspondence, I Could Not Hesitate For A Moment. I Would Keep The Old And Precious Privacy,-the Inestimable Right Of Every One Who Has A Friend And Can Write To Him, - I Would Keep Our Written Confidence From Being Made Biographical Material, As Anxiously As I Would Keep Our Spoken Conversation From Being Noted Down For The Good Of Society.

We Are Not Responsible For Our Feelings, As We Are For Our Principles And Actions. ... Our Care, Then, Should Be To Look To Our Principles, And To Avoid All Anxiety About Our Emotions. Their Nature Can Never Be Wrong Where Our Course Of Action Is Right, And For Their Degree We Are Not Responsible.

Men Who Pass Most Comfortably Through This World Are Those Who Possess Good Digestions And Hard Hearts.

Keep Innocency, And Take Heed Unto The Thing That Is Right, For That Shall Bring A Man Peace At The Last.