As is the garden such is the gardener. A man’s nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Reading maketh a full man.
The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
In charity there is no excess.
Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
There is a cunning which we in England call “the turning of the cat” in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.
It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man’s self.
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
Praise is the reflection of virtue.