Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.