Space Is To Place As Eternity Is

If Fortune Wishes To Make A Man Estimable, She Gives Him Virtues; If She Wishes To Make Him Esteemed, She Gives Him Success.

The Dregs May Stir Themselves As They Please; They Fall Back To The Bottom By Their Own Coarseness.

Liquid, Flowing Words Are The Choicest And The Best, If Language Is Regarded As Music. But When It Is Considered As A Picture, Then There Are Rough Words Which Are Very Telling, They Make Their Mark.

Which Is More Misshapen,--religion Without Virtue, Or Virtue Without Religion?

Tormented By The Cursed Ambition Always To Put A Whole Book In A Page, A Whole Page In A Sentence, And This Sentence In A Word. I Am Speaking Of Myself.