I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.