There Is No Alleviation For The Sufferings

There Is No Sadder Sight In The World Than To See A Beautiful Theory Killed By A Brutal Fact.

There Is The Greatest Practical Benefit In Making A Few Failures Early In Life.

Size Is Not Grandeur, And Territory Does Not Make A Nation.

There Are Some Men Who Are Counted Great Because They Represent The Actuality Of Their Own Age, And Mirror It As It Is. Such An One Was Voltaire, Of Whom It Was Epigrammatically Said: "he Expressed Everybody's Thoughts Better Than Anyone." But There Are Other Men Who Attain Greatness Because They Embody The Potentiality Of Their Own Day And Magically Reflect The Future. They Express The Thoughts Which Will Be Everybody's Two Or Three Centuries After Them. Such As One Was Descartes.

I Doubt The Fact, To Begin With, But If It Be So Even, What Is This But In Grand Words Asking Me To Believe A Thing Because I Like It.