Hold Firmly To Your Word.

In The Beginning We Must Simplify The Subject, Thus Unavoidably Falsifying It, And Later We Must Sophisticate Away The Falsely Simple Beginning.

Galen , In The Third Section Of His Book, "the Use Of The Limbs," Says Correctly That It Would Be In Vain To Expect To See Living Beings Formed Of The Blood Of Menstruous Women And The Semen Virile, Who Will Not Die, Will Never Feel Pain, Or Will Move Perpetually, Or Shine Like The Sun. This Dictum Of Galen Is Part Of The Following More General Proposition: Whatever Is Formed Of Matter Receives The Most Perfect Form Possible In That Species Of Matter; In Each Individual Case The Defects Are In Accordance With That Individual Matter.

When I Have A Difficult Subject Before Me - When I Find The Road Narrow, And Can See No Other Way Of Teaching A Well Established Truth Except By Pleasing One Intelligent Man And Displeasing Ten Thousand Fools - I Prefer To Address Myself To The One Man, And To Take No Notice Whatever Of The Condemnation Of The Multitude; I Prefer To Extricate That Intelligent Man From His Embarrassment And Show Him The Cause Of His Perplexity, So That He May Attain Perfection And Be At Peace.

It Is Better And More Satisfactory To Acquit A Thousand Guilty Persons Than To Put A Single Innocent One To Death.

The First Kind Of Evil Is That Which Is Caused To Man By The Circumstance That He Is Subject To Genesis And Destruction, Or That He Possesses A Body.