Mistakes Are Often The Best

To Deny The Freedom Of The Will Is To Make Morality Impossible.

The Superstition Of Science Scoffs At The Superstition Of Faith.

The Trials Of Life Will Not Wait For Us. They Come At Their Own Time, Not Caring Much To Inquire How Ready We May Be To Meet Them.

Now, To A Single-minded Man, Who Is Either Brave Enough Or Reckless Enough To Surrender Himself Wholly To One Idea, And Look Neither Right Nor Left, But Only Forward, What Earthly Consequences May Follow Is Not Material. Persecution Strengthens Him; And So He Is Sure He Is Right, Whether His Course End In A Prison Or On A Throne Is No Matter At All. But Men Of This Calibre Are Uncommon In Any Age Or In Any Country Very Uncommon In This Age And This Country.

For Me This World Was Neither So High Nor So Low As The Church Would Have It; Chequered Over With Its Wild Light Shadows, I Could Love It And All The Children Of It, More Dearly, Perhaps, Because It Was Not All Light.