Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.