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.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

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.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.