It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.