If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.