A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

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.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.