This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

Bread is the staff of life.

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.