But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

Genius is its own end.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.