A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.