O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Especially learn how to see.

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

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!