The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Some people are born very far from home.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.