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

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.