If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.