It had long since come to my attention that people of accomp... - Leonardo da Vinci

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."

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

"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions"

"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."