The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head."

"For observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th'observer's sake."

"Nature, and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light."

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

"It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own."