In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.