Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.