True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.