I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?