Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.