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

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

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

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!

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

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

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.