My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.