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

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

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

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

I detest war; it ruins conversation

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.