Indolence And Stupidity Are First Cousins.

Ideas Are A Capital That Bears Interest Only In The Hands Of Talent.

Obtuseness Is Sometimes A Virtue.

To Be Ungrateful Is To Be Unnatural. The Head May Be Thus Guilty, Not The Heart.

Extremes Produce Reaction. Beware That Our Boasted Civilization Does Not Lapse Into Barbarism.

If Poverty Makes Man Groan, He Yawns In Opulence. When Fortune Exempts Us From Labor, Nature Overwhelms Us With Time.