No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.