We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.