Truth Is Given, Not To Be Contemplated,

Poetry Creates Life; Science Dissects Death.

However Dark And Profitless, However Painful And Weary, Existence May Have Become, Life Is Not Done, And Our Christian Character Is Not Won, So Long As God Has Anything Left For Us To Suffer, Or Anything Left For Us To Do.

That Friend, Given To You By Circumstances Over Which You Have Not Control, Was God's Own Gift.

There Are Three Things In The World That Deserve No Mercy, Hypocrisy, Fraud, And Tyranny.

I Read Hard, Or Not At All; Never Skimming, Never Turning Aside To Merely Inciting Books; And Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, Have Passed Like The Iron Atoms Of The Blood Into My Mental Constitution.