Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn

Image, Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn

Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.

—Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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