We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.
We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.
So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.
When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.