Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

The best of the people are the first to greet others.

Nobody loses all the time.

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.

Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.

I am NOT fighting for Muslims, believe me, when I demand Pakistan.

I just wear what I like and lots of it is British.

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

What I am looking for is a certain grace.