...foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what you think now in hard words ; and...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest...

...the hobgoblin of little minds." — " Speak what you think to say in words as hard as cannon-balls, and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again ; though it contradict everything you have said to day." (Essay on Self-Rel/ance.) Observe the " everything." Why, even if a man is obliged...

...idle retrospections and useless self-reproaches. ' With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what you think now in hard words, and...what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said to-day.' His aim and his work were before and not behind him. He saw...

...a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself about his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow...to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — Ah, " so you will be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad then...

...true nor beautiful; as, for instance, " Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words...again, though it contradict everything you said today." Though I would not follow consistency against conviction, yet I think he would be a disagreeable and...

...packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to- day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...though it contradict everything you said to-day." — Essays, p. 47. The man must not be a slave to a single form of thought : " How wearisome the grammarian,...

...nothing to do. If you would be a man, speak*what you think to-day, in words as hard as cannon-balls ; and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words again, though it contradicts every thing you said to-day. I hope in these days we have heard the last of consistency....

...great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak out what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard...again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — HW Emerson. SPEINQ-TIMEi What it Suggests to the Heathen and to the Christian. BY BET. TB MATES....

...little minds .... If you would be a man, speak what yon think to-day, in words as hard as cannon-balls; and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard...though it contradict everything you said to-day." In the spirit of this advice, Dr. Davidson has produced the learned volumes before us, and we can congratulate...

...way to actual_ facts as they have arisen. " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." "Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks." On the 11th of August, 1867, President Johnson determined to remove Mr. Stan ton from the office of...