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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets; May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne Lead gradual.

The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it falls and die that night-- It was the plant and flower of Light.

A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit.

Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.

"Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.

Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf.

He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.

Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.