It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do