Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.