The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.