There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
Few people realize that luck is created.
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.