"The greatest inventions were at first but the rudiments of experiments."

"If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would app…"

"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it."

"The two most important things in life are good friends and a good chamber pot."

"And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more…"