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.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.