The Greatest Offence Against Virtue

Popularity Is Neither Fame Nor Greatness.

Those Who Speak Ill Of The Spiritual Life, Although They Come And Go By Day, Are Like The Smith's Bellows: They Take Breath But Are Not Alive.

Envy Is Littleness Of Soul.

It Is Hard For Any One To Be An Honest Politician Who Is Not Born And Bred A Dissenter.

So I Have Loitered My Life Away, Reading Books, Looking At Pictures, Going To Plays, Hearing, Thinking, Writing On What Pleased Me Best. I Have Wanted Only One Thing To Make Me Happy, But Wanting That Have Wanted Everything.