Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.