
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 515.
Plato, Phaedo
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 515.
Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), The Grey King (1975), Chapter 6 “Bird Rock” (pp. 71-72)
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
"On the American Dead in Spain", New Masses (February 14, 1939)
Jeremy Taylor, "Apples of Sodom," Part II, Sermon XX of Twenty-Five Sermons for the Winter Half-Year, Preached at Golden Grove (1653)
Misattributed
Variant: What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
As quoted by Frank Edward Manuel, The Religion of Isaac Newton (1977)