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.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.