Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

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.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.