Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.