We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Better do nothing than do ill.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.