I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

He who can copy can do.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

When taking a selfie, remember the most natural pose is still best

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.