To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.