Although truth is difficult to state, it is both easy and agreeable to receive, and the mind runs out to meet it ere the phrase be done.

The universe, in relation to what any man can say of it, is plain, patent and staringly comprehensible.

In itself, it is a great and travailing ocean, unsounded, unvoyageable, an eternal mystery to man; or, let us say, it is a monstrous and impassable mountain, one side of which, and a few near slopes and foothills, we can dimly study with these mortal eyes.

But what any man can say of it, even in his highest utterance, must have relation to this little and plain corner, which is no less visible to us than to him.

We are looking on the same map; it will go hard if we cannot follow the demonstration.