To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge