Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

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

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.