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

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.