Language Is The Spiritual Exhalation Of The

Man Is Naturally More Disposed To Beneficent Than Selfish Actions. This We Learn Even From The History Of Savages. The Domestic Virtues Have Something In Them So Inviting And Genial, And The Public Virtues Of The Citizen Something So Grand And Inspiring, That Even He Who Is Barely Uncorrupted, Is Seldom Able To Resist Their Charm.

The Finest Fruit Earth Holds Up To Its Maker Is A Finished Man.

I Lay Very Little Stress Either Upon Asking Or Giving Advice. Generally Speaking, They Who Ask Advice Know What They Wish To Do, And Remain Firm To Their Intentions. A Man May Allow Himself To Be Enlightened On Various Points, Even Upon Matters Of Expediency And Duty; But, After All, He Must Determine His Course Of Action, For Himself.

Natural Objects Themselves, Even When They Make No Claim To Beauty, Excite The Feelings, And Occupy The Imagination. Nature Pleases, Attracts, Delights, Merely Because It Is Nature. We Recognize In It An Infinite Power.

All Translating Seems To Me To Be Simply An Attempt To Accomplish An Impossible Task.