Experience Teaches Slowly, And At The Cost

I Have Long Been Convinced That The Christian Eucharist Is But A Continuation Of The Eleusinian Mysteries. St Paul, In Using The Word Teleiois, Almost Confirms This.

To Be Enthusiastic About Doing Much With Human Nature Is A Foolish Business Indeed; And, Throwing Himself Into His Work As He Was Doing, And Expecting So Much From It, Would Not The Tide Ebb As Strongly As It Was Flowing? It Is A Rash Game This Setting Our Hearts On Any Future Beyond What We Have Our Own Selves Control Over. Things Do Not Walk As We Settle With Ourselves They Ought To Walk, And To Hope Is Almost The Correlative Of To Be Disappointed.

I Am Convinced With Plato , With St. Paul, With St. Augustine, With Calvin , And With Leibnitz, That This Universe, And Every Smallest Portion Of It, Exactly Fulfils The Purpose For Which Almighty God Designed It.

To Tell Men That They Cannot Help Themselves Is To Fling Them Into Recklessness And Despair.

The War Of Good And Evil Is Mightiest In Mightiest Souls, And Even In The Darkest Time The Heart Will Maintain Its Right Against The Hardest Creed.