Learn to cultivate your own garden.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.