People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

All thoughts start from emotions.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

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.

I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.