Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

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

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.