Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.