Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

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

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.