Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

Do nothing twice over.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.