A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.