Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.