Ability without honor is useless.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
Friends, though absent, are still present.
Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.
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.
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.