Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

We live ruins amid ruins.