If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.