Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.