"I think that there is no body in nature that lets entirely and unhinderedly flow the electrical fluid, but we should settle for the materials that lose less of it."

"We must make a very precise distinction between the official and consequently dictatorial prerogatives of s…"

"Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary."

"Homosexuality is a crime against Nature. All Nature declares the purpose of the instinct for sexual union i…"

"And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is…"

"Pliny had no theoretical opinions of his own concerning changes of the earth's surface... But his enumerati…"

"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror:…"