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

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

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

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.