Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

All the world loves a lover.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

a good reader makes a good book

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.