The highest end of government is the culture of men.

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

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

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.