Work usually follows will.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.

To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.

These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.