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.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?