It Is The Acme Of Life To

Nature Is Like A Beautiful Woman That May Be As Delightfully And As Truly Known At A Certain Distance As Upon A Closer View; As To Knowing Her Through And Through; That Is Nonsense In Both Cases, And Might Not Reward Our Pains.

Almost Every Wise Saying Has An Opposite One, No Less Wise, To Balance It.

The Philosophy Of The Common Man Is An Old Wife That Gives Him No Pleasure, Yet He Cannot Live Without Her, And Resents Any Aspersions That Strangers May Cast On Her Character.

What Religion A Man Shall Have Is A Historical Accident, Quite As Much As What Language He Shall Speak.

Familiarity Breeds Contempt Only When It Breeds Inattention.