The less routine the more life.

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

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.

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.