It Is Well, When The Wise And

Patient Perseverance In Well Doing Is Infinitely Harder Than A Sudden And Impulsive Self-sacrifice.

So Multifarious Are The Different Classes Of Truths, And So Multitudinous The Truths In Each Class, That It May Be Undoubtingly Affirmed That No Man Has Yet Lived Who Could So Much As Name All The Different Classes And Subdivisions Of Truths, And Far Less Anyone Who Was Acquainted With All The Truths Belonging To Any One Class. What Wonderful Extent, What Amazing Variety, What Collective Magnificence! And If Such Be The Number Of Truths Pertaining To This Tiny Ball Of Earth, How Must It Be In The Incomprehensible Immensity!

Astronomy Is One Of The Sublimest Fields Of Human Investigation. The Mind That Grasps Its Facts And Principles Receives Something Of The Enlargement And Grandeur Belonging To The Science Itself. It Is A Quickener Of Devotion.

We Conceive Of Immortality As Having A Beginning, But No End; But We Conceive Of Eternity As Having Neither Beginning Nor End. Hence It Is Proper To Speak Of Eternity As The Attribute Of God, But Of Immortality As The Attribute Of Man.

Both Poetry And Philosophy Are Prodigal Of Eulogy Over The Mind Which Ransoms Itself By Its Own Energy From A Captivity To Custom, Which Breaks The Common Bounds Of Empire, And Cuts A Simplon Over Mountains Of Difficulty For Its Own Purposes, Whether Of Good Or Of Evil.