Let us honor the Holy Ghost.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.
Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.