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Accumulation (n.) is a often slow, silent process. The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
Belief (n.) is ambivalent. One can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it.
Belief (n.) is not easily regained once lost. There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.
Body and soul (n.) is a horse harnessed beside an ox.
The Book (n.) is a mirror: If an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Change (n.) is no guarantee that things are going to get better, but in order for things to get better, they must change.
Changing one's mind (n.) often takes more courage than to stick to one's opinions.
Character (n.) is not a man's opinion, but what a man's opinions lead him to be.
Character (n.) is recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which one takes badly.
Character (n.) is revealed by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Company (n.) is loved by man, even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Human nature (n.) is unknowable. Any presumptive knowledge thereof is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Imitation (n.) is also at work when one does just the opposite.