If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.