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

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

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.

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

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

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.