Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

We die, because we live.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.

An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.