There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary