Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.
I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.