Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
Human nature is fond of novelty.
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.