Society Acquires New Arts, And Loses Old

A Sect Or Party Is An Elegant Incognito Devised To Save A Man From The Vexation Of Thinking.

Better Be A Nettle In The Side Of Your Friend Than His Echo.

Nature Does Not Cocker Us: We Are Children, Not Pets: She Is Not Fond: Everything Is Dealt To Us Without Fear Or Favor, After Severe Universal Laws.

Yet Things Are Knowable! They Are Knowable, Because, Being From One, Things Correspond. There Is A Scale: And The Correspondence Of Heaven To Earth, Of Matter To Mind, Of The Part To The Whole, Is Our Guide. As There Is A Science Of Stars, Called Astronomy; And Science Of Quantities, Called Mathematics; A Science Of Qualities, Called Chemistry; So There Is A Science Of Sciences,--i Call It Dialectic,--which Is The Intellect Discriminating The False And The True.

Our Chief Want In Life Is Somebody Who Will Make Us Do What We Can.