I Will Work In My Own Way,

We First Crush People To The Earth, And Then Claim The Right Of Trampling On Them Forever, Because They Are Prostrate.

There Have Always Been A Large Class Of Thinkers Who Deny That The World Makes Any Progress. They Say We Move In A Circle; That Evils Are Never Conquered, But Only Change Their Forms.

Every Human Being Has, Like Socrates, An Attendant Spirit; And Wise Are They Who Obey Its Signals. If It Does Not Always Tell Us What To Do, It Always Cautions Us What Not To Do.

There Was A Time When All These Things Would Have Passed Me By, Like The Flitting Figures Of A Theatre, Sufficient For The Amusement Of An Hour. But Now, I Have Lost The Power Of Looking Merely On The Surface.

Home - That Blessed Word, Which Opens To The Human Heart The Most Perfect Glimpse Of Heaven, And Helps To Carry It Thither, As On An Angel's Wings.