All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.