No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.