I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Let every foot have its own shoe.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.