Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.