Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.