Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

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

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

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?

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.