It is not well to try to lift the curtain of the unseen, it is not well to call to heaven to show its glory, or to hell to give us touch and knowledge of its yawning fires.

Knowledge comes soon enough; many of us will say that knowledge has come too soon and left us desolate.

There is no bitterness like the bitterness of wisdom: so cried the great Koheleth, and so hath cried many a son of man following blindly on his path.

Let us be thankful for the dark places of the earth--places where we may find rest and shadow, and the heavy sweetness of the night.

Seek not after mysteries, O son of man, be content with the practical and the proved and the broad light of day; peep not, mutter not the words of awakening.