The Excess Of All Good

Home - That Blessed Word, Which Opens To The Human Heart The Most Perfect Glimpse Of Heaven, And Helps To Carry It Thither, As On An Angel's Wings.

To Everything There Is A Bright Side And A Dark Side; And I Hold It To Be Unwise, Unphilosophic, Unkind To Others, And Unhealthy For One's Own Soul, To Form The Habit Of Looking On The Dark Side. Cheerfulness Is To The Spiritual Atmosphere What Sunshine Is To The Earthly Landscape. I Am Resolved To Cherish Cheerfulness With Might And Main.

Even If Nothing Worse Than Wasted Mental Effort Could Be Laid To The Charge Of Theology, That Alone Ought To Be Sufficient To Banish It From The Earth ... What A Vast Amount Of Labour And Learning Has Been Expended, As Uselessly As Emptying Shallow Puddles Into Sieves! How Much Intellect Has Been Employed Mousing After Texts, To Sustain Preconceived Doctrines!

The Old Men Gazed On Them In Their Loveliness, And Turned Away With That Deep And Painful Sigh, Which The Gladness Of Childhood, And Thetransient Beauty Of Youth, Are So Apt To Awaken In The Bosom Of The Aged.

Not In Vain Is Ireland Pouring Itself All Over The Earth. The Irish, With Their Glowing Hearts And Reverent Credulity, Are Needed In This Cold Age Of Intellect And Skepticism.