To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.