How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper.At any meeting of politicianshow impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!

There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.