I Find No Intellect Comparable To My

Artists Are Always Young.

Reverence The Highest, Have Patience With The Lowest. Let This Day's Performance Of The Meanest Duty Be Thy Religion. Are The Stars Too Distant, Pick Up The Pebble That Lies At Thy Feet, And From It Learn The All.

Beware Of Over-great Pleasure In Being Popular Or Even Beloved. As Far As An Amiable Disposition And Powers Of Entertainment Make You So, It Is A Happiness; But If There Is One Grain Of Plausibility, It Is Poison.

Pain Has No Effect But To Steal Some Of My Time.

Would That The Simple Maxim, That Honesty Is The Best Policy, Might Be Laid To Heart; That A Sense Of The True Aim Of Life Might Elevate The Tone Of Politics And Trade Till Public And Private Honor Become Identical.