Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.