What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.