I row after health like a waterman.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

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

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.