“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”

“The remedy is worse than the disease.”

“The true atheist is he whose hands are cauterized by holy things.”

“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”

“The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.”

“Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.”

“If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted”