The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.