Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

What I am to be, I am now becoming.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Great spenders are bad lenders.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.