Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.