Men Rattle Their Chains-to Manifest Their Freedom.

When We Consider The Incidents Of Former Days, And Perceive, While Reviewing The Long Line Of Causes, How The Most Important Events Of Our Lives Originated In The Most Trifling Circumstances; How The Beginning Of Our Greatest Happiness Or Greatest Misery Is To Be Attributed To A Delay, To An Accident, To A Mistake; We Learn A Lesson Of Profound Humility.

Most Terrors Are But Spectral Illusions. Only Have The Courage Of The Man Who Could Walk Up To His Spectre Seated In The Chair Before Him, And Sit Down Upon It; The Horrid Thing Will Not Partake The Chair With You.

The Man Who Could Withstand, With His Fellow-men In Single Line, A Charge Of Cavalry May Lose All Command Of Himself On The Occurrence Of A Fire In His Own House, Because Of Some Homely Reminiscence Unknown To The Observing Bystander.

Be Cheerful [and Grateful For The Good That You Have]: Do Not Brood Over Fond Hopes Unrealized Until A Chain Is Fastened On Each Thought And Wound Around The Heart. Nature Intended You To Be The Fountain-spring Of Cheerfulness And Social Life, And Not The Mountain Of Despair And Melancholy.

A Great And Frequent Error In Our Judgment Of Human Nature Is To Suppose That Those Sentiments And Feelings Have No Existence, Which May Be Only For A Time Concealed. The Precious Metals Are Not Found At The Surface Of The Earth, Except In Sandy Places.