Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday.

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.