The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.