Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.