As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

Hope is a working-man's dream.

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.