Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

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It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - LEONARDO DA VINCI

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Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.

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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

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It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

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There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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