Till their own dreams at length decive 'em, And oft repeating, they believe 'em.

His noble negligences teach What others' toils despair to reach.

To John I owed great obligation; But John, unhappily, thought fit To publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.

And often took leave, but was loth to depart.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.