The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.