Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.