Great Difficulties May Be Surmounted By Patience

Dark And Sour Humours, Especially Those Which Have A Spice Of Malevolence In Them, Are Vastly Disagreeable. Such Men Have No Music In Their Souls.

I Am More And More Convinced That Man Is A Dangerous Creature And That Power, Whether Vested In Many Or A Few, Is Ever Grasping, And Like The Grave, Cries, 'give, Give.'

Well, Knowledge Is A Fine Thing, And Mother Eve Thought So; But She Smarted So Severely For Hers, That Most Of Her Daughters Have Been Afraid Of It Since.

These Are The Times In Which A Genius Would Wish To Live. It Is Not In The Still Calm Of Life, Or The Repose Of A Pacific Station, That Great Characters Are Formed. The Habits Of A Vigorous Mind Are Formed In Contending With Difficulties. Great Necessities Call Out Great Virtues. When A Mind Is Raised, And Animated By Scenes That Engage The Heart, Then Those Qualities Which Would Otherwise Lay Dormant, Wake Into Life And Form The Character Of The Hero And The Statesman.

Let Your Observations And Comparisons Produce In Your Mind An Abhorrence Of Domination And Power, The Parent Of Slavery, Ignorance, And Barbarism, Which Places Man Upon A Level With His Fellow Tenants Of The Woods.