If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Everything is politics.
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
A house is a machine for living in.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Courage in danger is half the battle.
All good art is an indiscretion.
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
