Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.