Twin-sister of natural and revealed religion, and of heavenly birth,
science will never belie her celestial origin, nor cease to sympathize
with all that emanates from the same pure home. Human ignorance and
prejudice may for a time seem to have divorced what God has joined
together; but human ignorance and prejudice shall at length pass away,
and then science and religion shall be seen blending their parti-colored
rays into one beautiful bow of light, linking heaven to earth and earth
to heaven.--_Prof. Hitchcock._
Science is a first rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if
he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty
of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his
patient.--_Holmes._
~Scriptures.~--The majesty of Scripture strikes me with admiration, as the
purity of the Gospel has its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of
our philosophers; with all their pomp of diction, how mean, how
contemptible, are they, compared with the Scriptures! Is it possible
that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of
man? The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and strangers to
the morality contained in the Gospel, the marks of whose truths are so
striking and inimitable that the inventor would be a more astonishing
character than the hero.--_Rousseau._
~Secrecy.~--Thou hast betrayed thy secret as a bird betrays her nest, by
striving to conceal it.--_Longfellow._
Never confide your secrets to paper: it is like throwing a stone in the
air, and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may
fall.--_Calderon._
People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so
for cause, but for secrecy's sake.--_Hazlitt._
~Sect.~--The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely
by counting heads.--_Macaulay._
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is
everywhere the same, because it comes from God.--_Voltaire._