If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.