The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

I like people who like Plato.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.