Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.