Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they |
People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. |
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. |
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. |
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species. |
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. |
The desire to know is natural to good men. |
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. |
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. |
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. |
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. |
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. |
The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. |
The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates. |
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. |