If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.