If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

If you wish to write, write.

No great thing is created suddenly.

As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.