Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.