The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

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

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

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.