When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Vows begin when hope dies.

A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.