It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the 'Nautilus' of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

[U]nlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not obs…

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.