Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
By far the best proof is experience.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.