Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.