You Who Weep For Pleasures Fled, While

It Is The Infirmity Of Our Nature Always To Believe Ourselves Much More Unhappy Than Those Who Groan By Our Sides!

Happiness Is Egotistical.

I Am Not Proud, But I Am Happy; And Happiness Blinds, I Think, More Than Pride.

But Valentine, Why Despair, Why Always Paint The Future In Such Sombre Hues?" Maximilien Asked. "because, My Friend, I Judge It By The Past.

Dantes Passed Through All The Stages Of Torture Natural To Prisoners In Suspense. He Was Sustained At First By That Pride Of Conscious Innocence Which Is The Sequence To Hope; Then He Began To Doubt His Own Innocence, Which Justified In Some Measure The Governor's Belief In His Mental Alienation; And Then, Relaxing His Sentiment Of Pride, He Addressed His Supplications, Not To God, But To Man. God Is Always The Last Resource. Unfortunates, Who Ought To Begin With God, Do Not Have Any Hope In Him Till They Have Exhausted All Other Means Of Deliverance.