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

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

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

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

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.