Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. Things are in the saddle and ride mankind.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.