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

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

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

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.

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

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.