Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.