Science Is Not Addressed To Poets.

It Will Often Be A Question When A Man Is Or Is Not Wise In Advancing Unpalatable Opinions, Or In Preaching Heresies; But It Can Never Be A Question That A Man Should Be Silent If Unprepared To Speak The Truth As He Conceives It.

The Magic Of The Pen Lies In The Concentration Of Your Thoughts Upon One Object.

Roger Bacon, A Disciple Of The Arabs, Also Insisted On The Primary Necessity Of Mathematics, Without Which No Other Science Can Be Known; Yet By Mathematics It Is Clear That He Meant Something Very Different From What We Mean, Including Under That Head Even Dancing, Singing, Gesticulation, And Performance On Musical Instruments.

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.

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.