I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

In charity there is no excess.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!