Ingratitude Is The Necessary Consequence Of Receiving

It Is Said That Ridicule Is The Test Of Truth; But It Is Never Applied Except When We Wish To Deceive Ourselves - When If We Cannot Exclude The Light, We Would Fain Draw The Curtain Before It. The Sneer Springs Out Of The Wish To Deny; And Wretched Must That State Of Mind Be, That Wishes To Take Refuge In Doubt.

It Is Amazing How Much A Thought Expands And Refines By Being Put Into Speech: I Should Think It Could Hardly Know Itself.

How Very Satisfactory Those Discussions Must Be, Where Each Party Retains Their Own Opinion!

Delicious Tears! The Heart's Own Dew.

I Will Look On The Stars And Look On Thee, And Read The Page Of Thy Destiny.