Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.