Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

The purpose creates the machine.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.