Yet Have I Ever Heard It Said

Opposition Always Inflames The Enthusiast, Never Converts Him.

Like A Dart The Present Glances, Silent Stands The Past Sublime.

Stubbornness Is Not Firmness.

Only Through Beauty's Morning-gate, Dost Thou Penetrate The Land Of Knowledge.

Regarded In Isolation, An Idea May Be Quite Insignificant, And Venturesome In The Extreme, But It May Acquire Importance From An Idea Which Follows It; Perhaps, In A Certain Collocation With Other Ideas, Which May Seem Equally Absurd, It May Be Capable Of Furnishing A Very Serviceable Link.