That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.