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!

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 detest war; it ruins conversation

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

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

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