One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.