My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.