Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old familiar pillow.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

This communication alone by the comparison of the antagonisms rivalries movements which give birth to decisive moments permits the evolution of the soul whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane in his old age he was himself an inmate.