The ball of snow when, as it rolls, it descends from the snowy mountains, increases in size as it falls. - Leonardo da Vinci

Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is its helm, requires her to act.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.