Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

Oh! blame not the bard.