The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the objet of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have cought happiness without dreaming of it.
"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."