“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design”

What Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and may calculate

In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

[These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

I’ve been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that’s the case, I should’ve come here in a space rocket.

For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.