Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.
Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Chance favours a prepared mind.
Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind