There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

I am myself the matter of my book.

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.