God made the country, and man made the town.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.