I Wish I Might Take This For

Surprises Are Foolish Things. The Pleasure Is Not Enhanced, And The Inconvenience Is Often Considerable.

How Wonderful, How Very Wonderful The Operations Of Time, And The Changes Of The Human Mind!

The Memory Is Sometimes So Retentive, So Serviceable, So Obedient-at Others So Bewildered And Weak-and At Others Again, So Tyrannic, So Beyond Control!

..that Sanguine Expectation Of Happiness Which Is Happiness Itself

Nothing Is More Deceitful Than The Appearance Of Humility.