My Good Opinion Once Lost Is Lost

None Of Us Want To Be In Calm Waters All Our Lives.

Everybody Has Their Taste In Noises As Well As In Other Matters.

Grant Us Peace, Almighty Father, So To Pray As To Deserve To Be Heard.

A Fondness For Reading, Which, Properly Directed, Must Be An Education In Itself.

There Are Such Beings In The World -- Perhaps One In A Thousand -- As The Creature You And I Should Think Perfection; Where Grace And Spirit Are United To Worth, Where The Manners Are Equal To The Heart And Understanding; But Such A Person May Not Come In Your Way, Or, If He Does, He May Not Be The Eldest Son Of A Man Of Fortune, The Near Relation Of Your Particular Friend, And Belonging To Your Own County.