It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.
Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.
Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.