Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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

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

Big-endians and small-endians.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.