I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

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