Fancy Brings Us As Many Vain Hopes

Man Is Naturally More Disposed To Beneficent Than Selfish Actions. This We Learn Even From The History Of Savages. The Domestic Virtues Have Something In Them So Inviting And Genial, And The Public Virtues Of The Citizen Something So Grand And Inspiring, That Even He Who Is Barely Uncorrupted, Is Seldom Able To Resist Their Charm.

One Must Not Consider A Language As A Product Dead, And Formed But Once; It Is An Animate Being, And Ever Creative. Human Thought Elaborates Itself With The Progress Of Intelligence; And Of This Thought Language Is A Manifestation. An Idiom Cannot Therefore Remain Stationary; It Walks, It Develops, It Grows Up, It Fortifies Itself, It Becomes Old, And It Reaches Decrepitude.

The Inquiry Into The Proper Aims And Limits Of State Agency Must Be Of The Highest Importance Nay, That It Is Perhaps More Vitally Momentous Than Any Other Political Question.

The Sensual And Spiritual Are Linked Together By A Mysterious Bond, Sensed By Our Emotions, Though Hidden From Our Eyes. To This Double Nature Of The Visible And Invisible World - To The Profound Longing For The Latter, Coupled With The Feeling Of The Sweet Necessity For The Former, We Owe All Sound And Logical Systems Of Philosophy, Truly Based On The Immutable Principles Of Our Nature, Just As From The Same Source Arise The Most Senseless Enthusiasms.

However Great An Evil Immorality May Be, We Must Not Forget That It Is Not Without Its Beneficial Consequences. It Is Only Through Extremes That Men Can Arrive At The Middle Path Of Wisdom And Virtue.