Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.

Contrary to earlier prejudices, there is nothing inherently progressive about evolution.

It is generally characteristic of arms races, including human ones, that although all would be better off if none of them escalated, so long as one of them escalates none can afford not to.

There has been progress in design, but not progress in accomplishment.

The successful scientist and the raving crank are separated by the quality of their inspirations. But I suspect that this amounts, in practice, to a difference, not so much in ability to notice analogies as in ability to reject foolish analogies and pursue helpful ones.

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism.

4 ways: Agnosticism, Relativism, Amorality, Morality. 

1) I don't know. 2) Everybody is different. 3) Do whatever you can. 4) Do what you should.

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Be your money's master, not its slave.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

We should provide in peace what we need in war.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Either be silent or say something better than silence.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. Maxim 6

Bitter for a free man is the bondage of debt.

If your parent is just, revere him; if not, bear with him.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Too much straightforwardness is foolish against a shameless person.

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

Poverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Fortune is like glass-the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.

A beautiful face is a silent commendation.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.