Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.