Three Things Characterize Man: Person, Fate, Merit--the

Too Much Gravity Argues A Shallow Mind.

And Still, Laughter Is Akin To Weeping.

Thinkers Are Scarce As Gold; But He Whose Thoughts Embrace All His Subject, And Who Pursues It Uninterruptedly And Fearless Of Consequences, Is A Diamond Of Enormous Size.

He, Who Cannot Forgive A Trespass Of Malice To His Enemy, Has Never Yet Tasted The Most Sublime Enjoyment Of Love.

Dread More The Blunderer's Friendship Than The Calumniator's Enmity.