Be prepared for either wisdom through joy, or wisdom through grief. Enough that, looking only through the mechanism by which this mortal world is imp… - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

It is an inevitable law that a man, in spite of himself, should live for something higher than his own happiness. He cannot live in himself or for himself, however egotistical he may try to be. Every desire he has links him with others.

Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide
When, moment on moment there rushes between The one and the other, a sea,—
Ah, never can fall from the days that have been A gleam on the years that shall be.

We commenced research where modern conjecture closes its faithless wings. And with us, those were the common elements of science which the sages of to-day disdain as wild chimeras, or despair of as unfathomable mysteries.