I Love Agitation And Investigation And Glory

Of Course I Deprecate War, But If It Is Brought To My Door The Bringer Will Find Me At Home.

For Honest Merit To Succeed Amid The Tricks And Intrigues Which Are Now So Lamentably Common, I Know Is Difficult; But The Honor Of Success Is Increased By The Obstacles Which Are To Be Surmounted. Let Me Triumph As A Man Or Not At All.

I Love Agitation And Investigation And Glory In Defending Unpopular Truth Against Popular Error.

I Never Meet A Ragged Boy In The Street Without Feeling That I May Owe Him A Salute, For I Know Not What Possibilities May Be Buttoned Up Under His Coat.

There Are Times In The History Of Men And Nations, When They Stand So Near The Vale That Separates Mortals From The Immortals, Time From Eternity, And Men From Their God, That They Can Almost Hear The Beatings, And Feel The Pulsations Of The Heart Of The Infinite.