Whatever man contrives or devises is an artifice, a thing of art not of nature, and therefore artificial.
"The Kempton-Wace Letters"
Jack London Anna Strunsky
Was't not enough that he had done us wrong, But we must also throw him money too, To live till he devises some new mischief?
"The Comedies of Terence"
Publius Terentius Afer
But men should not be too curious in analysing and condemning any means which Nature devises to save them from themselves, whether it be coins, old books, curiosities, butterflies, or fossils.
"The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford"
Mark Rutherford