Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.