There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?