average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

Good writing comes from good talent.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.