In social life, there are no characters which are thoroughly satisfactory except those which unite these fundamental traits, for they only can meet the wants of both mind and heart.


The optimist (G.P. Putnam, 1850)


In social life, there are no characters which are thoroughly satisfactory except those which unite these fundamental traits, for they only can meet...

In social life, there are no characters which are thoroughly satisfactory except those which unite these fundamental traits, for they only can meet...

In social life, there are no characters which are thoroughly satisfactory except those which unite these fundamental traits, for they only can meet...

In social life, there are no characters which are thoroughly satisfactory except those which unite these fundamental traits, for they only can meet...