It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

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