In Everyday Things The Law Of Sacrifice

Now, To A Single-minded Man, Who Is Either Brave Enough Or Reckless Enough To Surrender Himself Wholly To One Idea, And Look Neither Right Nor Left, But Only Forward, What Earthly Consequences May Follow Is Not Material. Persecution Strengthens Him; And So He Is Sure He Is Right, Whether His Course End In A Prison Or On A Throne Is No Matter At All. But Men Of This Calibre Are Uncommon In Any Age Or In Any Country Very Uncommon In This Age And This Country.

Ignorance Is The Dominion Of Absurdity.

We Must Have The Real Thing Before We Can Have A Science Of A Thing.

In Every Department Of Life--in Its Business And In Its Pleasures, In Its Beliefs And In Its Theories, In Its Material Developments And In Its Spiritual Connections--we Thank God That We Are Not Like Our Fathers.

Nature Is Not A Partisan, But Out Of Her Ample Treasue House She Produces Children In Infinite Variety, Of Which She Is Equally The Mother, And Disowns None Of Them.