The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

No one is wise at all times.

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.