We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

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

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.