Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.