Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.