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

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

"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."

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."