The age of miracles past! The age of miracles is for ever here. Carlyle.
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. Hume.
The agnosticism of doubt is as far from the agnosticism of devotion as blindness for want of vision from blindness through excess of light. James Martineau.
The aim of all morality, truly conceived, is to furnish men with a standard of action and a motive to work by, which shall not intensify each man's selfishness, but raise him ever more and more above it. J. C. Sharpe.
The aim of education should be to teach us 45 rather how to think than what to think. Beattie.
The aim of life is work, or there is no aim at all. Auerbach.
The aim of the legislator should be, not truth, but expediency. Buckle.
The air seems nimble with the glad, / Quaint fancies of our childhood dear. Dr. Walter Smith.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered other things of greater value. Schopenhauer.
The all in all of faith is that we believe; of 50 knowledge, what we know, as well as how much and how well. Goethe.