My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.