Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.