Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

The truth is often stranger than fiction.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other.

The essence of science is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complex.

"Always be prepared for the unexpected."

比喻做事要专心致志，不能一心二用。