It Is To Hope, Though Hope Were

We May Think All Religions Beneficial, And Believe Of One Alone That It Is True.

You, That Have Toiled During Youth, To Set Your Son Upon Higher Ground, And To Enable Him To Begin Where You Left Off, Do Not Expect That Son To Be What You Were, - Diligent, Modest, Active, Simple In His Tastes, Fertile In Resources. You Have Put Him Under Quite A Different Master. Poverty Educated You; Wealth Will Educate Him. You Cannot Suppose The Result Will Be The Same.

Children Have Almost An Intuitive Discernment Between The Maxims You Bring Forward For Their Use, And Those By Which You Direct Your Own Conduct.

The Most Characteristic Mark Of A Great Mind Is To Choose Some One Important Object, And Pursue It For Life.

It Is To Hope, Though Hope Were Lost.