The Fool Is Willing To Pay For

The Fool Is Willing To Pay For Anything But Wisdom. No Man Buys That Of Which He Supposes Himself To Have An Abundance Already.

It Is A Bird-flight Of The Soul, When The Heart Declares Itself In Song. The Affections That Clothe Themselves With Wings Are Passions That Have Been Subdued To Virtues.

Revelation May Not Need The Help Of Reason, But Man Does, Even When In Possession Of Revelation. Reason May Be Described As The Candle In The Man's Hand, To Which Revelation Brings The Necessary Flame.

We Must Calculate Not On The Weather, Nor On Fortune, But Upon God And Ourselves. He May Fail Us In The Gratification Of Our Wishes, But Never In The Encounter With Our Exigencies.

Genius Is The Very Eye Of Intellect And The Wing Of Thought; It Is Always In Advance Of Its Time, And Is The Pioneer For The Generation Which It Precedes.