The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

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

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.