I Will Not Refuse To

[i]t Is Easy To Regard The Mind And The Body As Two Slaves Trained To Obey The Imperial Soul.... [i]n This Trinity Of Soul, Mind, And Body, It Is Sometimes Hard To Tell Which Of The Three Is At Work; And The Personality Of Each Of The Three Parties Interferes A Good Deal With That Of Each Of The Others. But If You Who Read Will Remember That You Are An Infinite Child Of God, And Can Partake Of His Nature, And That You Have Given To You The Management And Direction Of Your Mind And Your Body, You Will Be Saved Many Failures.

Wise Anger Is Like Fire From A Flint: There Is Great Ado To Get It Out; And When It Does Come, It Is Out Again Immediately.

The Church Itself Has Got To Go Outside Of Its Own Borders And Carry The Gospel To Ev'ry Creature, Or It Is No Church Of Christ; And Any Mutual Improvement Club Which Thinks That By Reading Its Shakspearo, Or By Acting Its Pretty Tableaux, Or By Having. This Or That Little Reading From Spenser And From Chaucer, It Is Going To Lift Itself Up Into Any Higher Order Of Culture Or Life, Is Wholly Mistaken, Unless As An Essential Part Of Its Duty, It Goes Out Into The World, Finds Those That Are Falling Down, And Lifts Them Up To The Majesty Of Freemen, Who Are Sons Of God.

An Intelligent Class Can Scarce Ever Be, As A Class, Vicious, And Never, As A Class, Indolent. The Excited Mental Activity Operates As A Counterpoise To The Stimulus Of Sense And Appetite.

In The Pure Mathematics We Contemplate Absolute Truths Which Existed In The Divine Mind Before The Morning Stars Sang Together, And Which Will Continue To Exist There When The Last Of Their Radiant Host Shall Have Fallen From Heaven.