Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

It is natural to die as to be born.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.