"Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generaled, but put him where you will, he stands."

"This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth."

"Cause and effect are the two sides of one fact."

"Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young."

"Our spontaneous action is always the best."

"If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the second, but virtual and latent."

"All great actions have been simple.”

"We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.” "Fear always springs from ignorance."

"The world is his who can see through its pretension." "Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind."

"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."

"But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance."

"The Spirit only can teach."

"Look to it first and only, that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money are nothing to you,-are not bandages over your eyes, that you cannot see,-but live with the privilege of the immeasurable mind."

"There are persons who are not actors; not speakers, but influences.'

"The one condition coupled with the gift of truth is its use. That man shall be learned who reduceth his learning to practice."

"Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist."

"That is morning, to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of this sickly body, and to become as large as nature.'

"O, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;
And when I am stretched beneath the pines,
Where the evening star so holy shines,
I laugh at the pride and lore of man,

At the sophist schools and the learned clan;
For what are they all, in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?"

"For this is Love's nobility,—

Not to scatter bread and gold,

Goods and raiment bought and sold;
But to hold fast his simple sense,
And speak the speech of innocence,
And with hand and body and blood,
To make his bosom-counsel good.
He that feeds men serveth few;
He serves all who dares be true."

"Give me truths;

For I am weary of the surfaces,
And die of inanition."

"Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill."

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'Some of your hurts you have cured,

And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From evils which never arrived!"

"And ye shall succor men;

'Tis nobleness to serve;

Help them who cannot help again:.
Beware from right to swerve."

CHAPTER 15

EXTRACTS FROM LIFE AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ELIOT,
1819-1880 A. D.

"My only desire is to know the truth, my only fear, to cling

"The last proof of a real love of the truth-that freshest stamp of divinity-is a calm confidence in its intrinsic power to secure its own,high destiny, that of universal empire."

"I fully participate in the belief that the only heaven, here or hereafter, is to be found in conformity with the will of the Supreme.

"I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest."

"Only persevere; be true, firm and loving; not too anxious about immediate usefulness to others,-that can only be a result of justice to yourself.'

"Where thought and love are active,—thought the formative power, love the vitalizing,-there can be no sadness."

"The highest inspiration of the purest, noblest, human soul, is the nearest expression of the truth."

"But I have faith in the working-out of higher possibilities than the Catholic or any other Church has presented; and those who have strength to wait and endure are bound to accept no formula which their whole souls-their intellect as well as their emotions-do not embrace with entire reverence."

"Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

"It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures."

"If you mean to act nobly and seek to know the best things God has put within reach of men, you must learn to fix your mind on that end, and not on what will happen because of it." "She had that rare sense which discerns what is inalterable, and submits to it without murmuring."

CHAPTER 16

A FEW BRIEF QUOTATIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF CONFUCIUS, BUDDHA, BISHOP BERKELEY AND DR. PHINEAS

PARKHURST QUIMBY.

Confucius said, "God is Principle."

The Buddhist Bible says, "In order to see God we have got to overcome matter."

Buddha said, "Ignorance of truth is the cause of misery." Jesus said, centuries later, "Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

"Geo. Berkeley, D.D., born 1684, gave a popularity and fashion to metaphysical pursuits and exact science not before acquired in England.”

"Bishop Berkeley denied the existence of matter altogether." And it is said, "millions of others have done the same thing."

"Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, who was born in Lebanon, N. H., February 16, 1802, and who died at Belfast, Me., January 16, 1866, after having successfully healed many thousands of invalids through his discovery that disease is the invention of man, and health the heritage from wisdom divine."

"Introductory to his book on Christian Science, entitled 'Science of Health and Happiness,' he gives a clear, succinct and satisfactory insight into his own well defined relationship with heavenly healing. To this end he writes:"

"Every disease is the revolution of man, and has no identity in wisdom; but, to those who believe it, it is a truth. If everything man does not understand were blotted out, what is left of man?”

"Would he be better or worse if nine-tenths of all he thinks he knows were blotted out of his mind, and he existed with what is true?"

"I contend that he would, as it were, sit on the clouds and see the world beneath him tormented with ideas that form living errors whose weight is ignorance. Safe from their power, he would not return to the world's belief for any consideration."

"In a slight degree this is my case. I sit, as it were, in another world or condition, as far above the belief in disease as the heavens are above the earth, and, though safe myself, I grieve for the sins of my fellow men; and I am reminded of the words of Jesus when he beheld the misery of his countrymen: 'O, Jerusalem, how oft would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens, but ye would not!'"'

"I hear this truth now pleading with man, to listen to the voice of reason. I know from my own experience with the sick that their troubles are the effect of their own belief-not that their belief is the truth, but their beliefs act upon their minds, bringing them into subjection to their belief, and their troubles are a change that follows."

"Disease is a reality to all mankind, but I do not include myself, because I stand outside of it, where I can see things real to the world, and things that are real to wisdom. I know that I can distinguish that which is false from a truth in religion or in disease. To me, disease is always false; but to to those who realize it, it is a truth, and the errors of religion the same. Until the world is shaken by investigation, so that the rocks and mountains of religious error are removed and the medical Babylon destroyed, sickness and sorrow will prevail.'