Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

All great men are partially inspired.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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