The Spontaneous Tendency To Invoke A Final

A Man May Be Buoyed Up By The Efflation Of His Wild Desires To Brave Any Imaginable Peril; But He Cannot Calmly See One He Loves Braving The Same Peril; Simply Because He Cannot Feel Within Turn That Which Prompts Another. He Sees The Danger, And Feels Not The Power That Is To Overcome It.

Pliny... Makes The Statement, And For Untrustworthiness Of Statement He Cannot Easily Be Surpassed.

All Great Authors Are Seers.

Every One Who Has Seriously Investigated A Novel Question, Who Has Really Interrogated Nature With A View To A Distinct Answer, Will Bear Me Out In Saying That It Requires Intense And Sustained Effort Of Imagination.

Among The Many Strange Servilities Mistaken For Pieties, One Of The Least Lovely Is That Which Hopes To Flatter God By Despising The World, And Vilifying Human Nature.