~Morals.~--Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices,
which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to
avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding
generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their
hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their
patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.--_Macaulay._
We like the expression of Raphael's faces without an edict to enforce
it. I do not see why there should not be a taste in morals formed on the
same principle.--_Hazlitt._
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim
above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.--_Thoreau._
~Morning.~--Vanished night, shot through with orient beams.--_Milton._
The dewy morn, with breath all incense, and with cheek all
bloom.--_Byron._