The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

To find true fulfilment, you must live your life’s purpose.

Gravitate towards your heart’s desire!

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.