Labor humanizes, exalts.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.