Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.