Excerpt from Aphorisms for Youth: With Observations and Reflections, Religious, Moral, Critical, and Characteristic She makes no pretensions to originality in any respect: aphorisms, maxims, and proverbs have, from the earliest times, been used as vehicles of instruction. Some of the thoughts contained in the following pages have been produced by her own mind, and are dressed in her Own language; yet she is conscious that neither the ideas, nor the garb in which they are clothed, may bear the stamp of novelty, because every subject of discussion of the human mind, and nearly every possible arrangement of language, have, she be lieves, been long since exhausted. But as in the human frame scarcely two beings were ever formed alike, though strong resemblances may subsist, so in human compositions there are ap propriate distinctions, 'which, though slight, make good the claims of authors to their productions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.