Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts?as expressions of one law.Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools.A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.By going one step farther back in thought?discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle?and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
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Valor consists in the power of self?recovery?so that a man cannot have his flank turned?cannot be out?generalled?but put him where you will?he stands.
This can only be by his preferring truth?to his past apprehension of truth?and his alert acceptance of it from whatever quarter;the intrepid conviction that his laws?his relations to society?his Christianity?his world?may at any time be superseded and decease.
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Conversation is a game of circles.In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.The parties are not to be judged by the spirit they partake and even express orrow they will have receded from this high??morrow you shall find them stooping under the old pack?saddles.Yet let us enjoy the cloven flame whilst it glows on our walls.When each new speaker strikes a new light?emancipates us from the oppress