We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth or creates.
Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconcious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know as I have lived. Instantly, we know whose words are loaded with life and whose not. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function.