Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.