For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.