I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

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

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification