What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Observation is an old man's memory.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.