Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.