It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up

Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.