Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.