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.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

Big-endians and small-endians.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.