It Is A Sad Weakness In Us,

I Couldn't Live In Peace If I Put The Shadow Of A Willful Sin Between Myself And God.

An Ass May Bray A Good While Before He Shakes The Stars Down.

Education Is An Asset No Man Can Take Away.

And We Must Learn To Accommodate Ourselves To The Discovery That Some Of Those Cunningly-fashioned Instruments Called Human Souls Have Only A Very Limited Range Of Music, And Will Not Vibrate In The Least Under A Touch That Fills Others With Tremulous Rapture Or Quivering Agony.

As To Memory, It Is Known That This Frail Faculty Naturally Lets Drop The Facts Which Are Less Flattering To Our Self-love - When It Does Not Retain Them Carefully As Subjects Not To Be Approached, Marshy Spots With A Warning Flag Over Them.