A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

That government is best which governs least.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

I love a life whose plot is simple.