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

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

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.

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.

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

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.