Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands right and wrong, with a strong sense of self is beautiful. A man who can be compassionate and caring, but firm and wise. Someone who can do the right thing no matter who's around to see it. Even if the deed is unseen and unrecognized. That is a beautiful man. One today is worth two tomorrows.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.