Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

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.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.