The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.