Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.