Many Of Our Disappointments And

O, I Have Read His Heart In His Wicked Eyes Many A Time. The Very Devil Is In Them.

How Difficult The Task To Quench The Fire And The Pride Of Private Ambition, And To Sacrifice Ourselves And All Our Hopes And Expectations To The Public Weal! How Few Have Souls Capable Of So Noble An Undertaking!

A People Fired ... With Love Of Their Country And Of Liberty, A Zeal For The Public Good, And A Noble Emulation Of Glory, Will Not Be Disheartened Or Dispirited By A Succession Of Unfortunate Events. But Like Them, May We Learn By Defeat The Power Of Becoming Invincible.

It Is To Me A Most Affecting Thing To Hear Myself Prayed For, In Particular As I Do Every Day In The Week, And Disposes Me To Bear With More Composure, Some Disagreeable Circumstances That Attend My Situation.

No One Is Without Their Difficulties, Whether In High, Or Low Life, & Every Person Knows Best Where Their Own Shoe Pinches.