I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

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

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

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.