Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

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

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

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

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

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.