Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

We can only obey our own polarity.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.