The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

All of heaven we have below.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.