Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.
The instinct of the people is right.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.