Tinkerer

“You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!”
― Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls

“Who does not know that without women we can feel no content or satisfaction throughout this life of ours, which but for them would be rude and devoid of all sweetness and more savage than that of wild beasts? Who does not know that women alone banish from our hearts all vile and base thoughts, vexations, miseries, and those turbid melancholies that so often are their fellows?”
― Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.”
― Rene Descartes

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol