The eye is the jewel of the body.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.