You despised neither absinthe nor
tobacco; but you despised life. Neither delicacy nor common sense could
have been learned from you, captain; but you taught me, even at an age
when my nurse had to wipe my nose, a lesson of honour and
self-abnegation that I will never forget.
THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS
[Sidenote: _Dean Swift_]
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us
love one another.
* * * * *
The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
* * * * *
When a true genius appeareth in the world you may know him by this
infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
* * * * *
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps
as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where
sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.
* * * * *
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion,
learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what
a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!
* * * * *
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend
their time in making nets, not in making cages.
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