Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.