When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.