It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.