A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.
Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.