Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.