I know myself, and I estimate my value as a trifling thing." Schrotter shook his head.
"If that were right, an adult must in all cases give his life to save a child, because he might grow to be a Newton, or a Goethe, and above all, because the child is the future, and that must always taken precedence of the past and the present.

But to a mature man that is not practicable.

There are no more secrets.

Mankind knows that the probable is planted within his own being.

Do not seek to find additional reasons for a fact which has already sprung up from unknown forces.