... And What Good Is A Baby?

With Respect To Committees As You Would Perceive I Am Very Jealous Of Their Formation. I Mean Working Committees. I Think Business Is Always Better Done By Few Than By Many.

Occasionally And Frequently The Exercise Of The Judgment Ought To End In Absolute Reservation. It May Be Very Distasteful, And Great Fatigue, To Suspend A Conclusion; But As We Are Not Infallible, So We Ought To Be Cautious; We Shall Eventually Find Our Advantage, For The Man Who Rests In His Position Is Not So Far From Right As He Who, Proceeding In A Wrong Direction, Is Ever Increasing His Distance.

I ... Express A Wish That You May, In Your Generation, Be Fit To Compare To A Candle; That You May, Like It, Shine As Lights To Those About You; That, In All Your Actions, You May Justify The Beauty Of The Taper By Making Your Deeds Honourable And Effectual In The Discharge Of Your Duty To Your Fellow-men.

Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True, If It Be Consistent With The Laws Of Nature.

When I Consider The Multitude Of Associated Forces Which Are Diffused Through Nature - When I Think Of That Calm Balancing Of Their Energies Which Enables Those Most Powerful In Themselves, Most Destructive To The World's Creatures And Economy, To Dwell Associated Together And Be Made Subservient To The Wants Of Creation, I Rise From The Contemplation More Than Ever Impressed With The Wisdom, The Beneficence, And Grandeur, Beyond Our Language To Express, Of The Great Disposer Of Us All.