Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

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

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.