Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.