A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.