It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.