The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.