Virtue Is An Angel, But

If You Wish To Write Well, Study The Life About You,--life In The Public Streets.

He Who Cannot Resist Temptation Is Not A Man. Whoever Yields To Temptation Debases Himself With A Debasement From Which He Can Never Arise.

Much That We Call Evil Is Really Good In Disguises; And We Should Not Quarrel Rashly With Adversities Not Yet Understood, Nor Overlook The Mercies Often Bound Up In Them.

Man ... Has An Inborn Religious Sentiment That Whispers Of A God To His Inmost Soul, As A Shell Taken From The Deep Yet Echoes Forever The Ocean's Roar.

But Let A Man Know That There Are Things To Be Known, Of Which He Is Ignorant, And It Is So Much Carved Out Of His Domain Of Universal Knowledge.