For a long time I was timid in the presence in learning, and I fancied that the insufficiency of the answers which I received was not its fault, but was owing to my own gross ignorance, but this thing was not a joke or a pastime with me, but the business of my life, and I was at last forced, willy-nilly, to the conclusion that these questions of mine were the only legitimate questions underlying all knowledge, and that it was not I that was in fault in putting them, but science in pretending to have an answer for them. A Confession

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep. Don Quixote

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. De Profundis

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. The importance of Being Earnest