I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. |
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. |
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. |
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? |
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. |
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. |
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. |
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. |
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. |
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. |
Art is never finished, only abandoned. |