To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.