Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

Father of his country.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.