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.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.