Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

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

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.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

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.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.