If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.