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

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

A lie is an excuse guarded

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

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.