The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

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.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

My appetite comes to me while eating.