Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash.

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.