Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.