All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Take time for all things.

An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.