I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.

At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.