Selfishness, When It Is Punished By The

Any One Who Is Much Talked Of Be Much Maligned. This Seems To Be A Harsh Conclusion; But When You Consider How Much More Given Men Are To Depreciate Than To Appreciate, You Will Acknowledge That There Is Some Truth In The Saying.

The Sense Of Danger Is Never, Perhaps, So Fully Apprehended As When The Danger Has Been Overcome.

No Man, Or Woman, Was Ever Cured Of Love By Discovering The Falseness Of His Or Her Lover. The Living Together For Three Long, Rainy Days In The Country Has Done More To Dispel Love Than All The Perfidies In Love That Have Ever Been Committed.

A Great Many Wise Sayings Have Been Uttered About The Effects Of Solitary Retirement; But The Motives Which Impel Men To Seek It Are Not More Various Than The Effects Which It Produces On Different Individuals. One Thing Is Certain, That Those Who Can With Truth Affirm That They Are "never Less Alone Than When Alone," Might Generally Add That They Never Feel More Lonely Than When Not Alone.

No Doubt Hard Work Is A Great Police Agent. If Everybody Were Worked From Morning Till Night, And Then Carefully Locked Up, The Register Of Crime Might Be Greatly Diminished. But What Would Become Of Human Nature? Where Would Be The Room For Growth In Such A System Of Things? It Is Through Sorrow And Mirth, Plenty And Need, A Variety Of Passions, Circumstances, And Temptations, Even Through Sin And Misery, That Men's Natures Are Developed.