If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

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.

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

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

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 have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.