Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.