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

The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.

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.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

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

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

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