I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

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.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.