The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.