The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.