Careful Words

utility (n.)

utility (adj.)

I trust in Nature for the stable laws

Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant

And Autumn garner to the end of time.

I trust in God,—the right shall be the right

And other than the wrong, while he endures.

I trust in my own soul, that can perceive

The outward and the inward,—Nature's good

And God's.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): A Soul's Tragedy. Act i.