Virtue Is A Habit Of The Mind,

To Be Ignorant Of What Occurred Before You Were Born Is To Remain Always A Child.

Nothing Is So Unpredictable As A Throw Of The Dice, And Yet Every Man Who Plays Often Will At Some Time Or Other Make A Venus-cast: Now And Then He Indeed Will Make It Twice And Even Thrice In Succession. Are We Going To Be So Feebleminded Then As To Aver That Such A Thing Happened By The Personal Intervention Of Venus Rather Than By Pure Luck?

Times Are Bad. Children No Longer Obey Their Parents, And Everyone Is Writing A Book.

If We Lose Affection And Kindliness From Our Life: We Lose All That Gives It Charm.

Who Does Not Know History's First Law To Be That An Author Must Not Dare To Tell Anything But The Truth? And Its Second That He Must Make Bold To Tell The Whole Truth? That There Must Be No Suggestion Of Partiality Anywhere In His Writings? Nor Of Malice?