The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Friendship is the union of spirits.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.