And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will ne ...

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the evil in its nature.

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step to ...

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.