Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays