The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.