He travels best that knows when to return.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.