Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Give a man health and a course to steer. And he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Don't ask me nothing about nothing, I just might tell you the truth.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.