A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Thrift is a great revenue.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.