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.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

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

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.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.