Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.