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

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

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

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.

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