The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?