I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.