There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.