We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes
may be disguised in helpless embryos. In fact, the world is full of
hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called
possibilities.--_George Eliot._
The pathway of progress will still, as of old, bear the traces of
martyrdom, but the advance is inevitable.--_G. H. Lewes._
Nations are educated through suffering, mankind is purified through
sorrow. The power of creating obstacles to progress is human and
partial. Omnipotence is with the ages.--_Mazzini._
Every age has its problem, by solving which, humanity is helped
forward.--_Heinrich Heine._
Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of
progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many
years.--_Mazzini._
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each
subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used
to hide themselves.--_Longfellow._