Simple Ignorance Has In Its Time Been

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.

You Cannot Ensure The Gratitude Of Others For A Favour Conferred Upon Them In The Way Which Is Most Agreeable To Yourself.

It Is In Length Of Patience, Endurance And Forbearance That So Much Of What Is Good In Mankind And Womankind Is Shown.

The Thing Which Makes One Man Greater Than Another, The Quality By Which We Ought To Measure Greatness, Is A Man's Capacity For Loving.

Offended Vanity Is The Great Separator In Social Life.