Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.