Calmness is always godlike.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.