The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilty of faults; we reprove, not so much with a view to correcting them, as to persuade them that we are exempt from those faults ourselves.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

I rose up at the dawn of day,-- "Get thee away! get thee away! Pray'st thou for riches? Away, away! This is the throne of Mammon grey."

In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.

There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.